People of the Perl, I am in need of some help! Here is the info you need for my samba mount points.
directories: ~emstat/win32/backup/012004155140/pc*, ~emstat/win32/backup/01210415175/pc*, ~emstat/win32/pc* files: under each of these subdirs, pc[#####], I have "training 2001.eml" files ( NOTE THE SPACE ) that I need deleted! so far this is what I have for my perl program /usr/bin/perl -w use strict; # Open dirs and search for string $emdir="/home/emstat/win32/backup/012004155140"; $emdir2="/home/emstat/win32/backup/012104151751"; $emdir3= opendir(DEREK, "$emdir") || die "cannot open directory $!"; opendir(SMITH, "$emdir2") || die "cannot open directory $!"; while (defined ($readdir = DEREK)) My questions are how can I have this search recursively down under all the pc#### subdir names? Can I create a scalar like "/home/emstat/win32/backup/012004155140/pc*" so it will store all the pc subdirs? Can I use reg exp such as a range of pc80[0-9] pc13[0-9] ? please help! thank you, Derek B. Smith OhioHealth IT UNIX / TSM / EDM Teams