Dear sir, Please could you advise me as a newcomer to Perl. I am trying to gather documents from a variety of directories, some deeply nested. Once I have the files I then propose to copy them somewhere else and maybe export the data into filemaker or something like that. I realise that it may be achievable by applescript but so far, I have not enjoyed using this method! Could you point me out to some sample perl code that might help? I would expect that I need a subroutine or function that will be called if a certain file is a directory. I understand how to do a basic list for one level but am stuck as to how to go say 5 levels deep. Many thanks for your assistance. Mark Bedish ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org