Perl'ers.... nevermind... I had a brain fart. I got it using a foreach loop on the file.
Derek B. Smith OhioHealth IT UNIX / TSM / EDM Teams Derek Smith/Staff/OhioH ealth To <beginners@perl.org> 03/23/2005 04:52 cc PM Subject printing a filehandle to another file. Here is my code: use strict; use warnings; my $tpexports = qq(/usr/local/bin/ohiohealth/derek); my $archivedexports = qq(/usr/local/log/9940exports.archived); open (FFFF_, "+>$tpexports") || die "could not open file: $tpexports $!"; open (FOO, ">>$archivedexports") || die "could not open file $!"; print FOO "\n", $tpexports; close FFFF_; close FOO; My goal is to append whats in derek to FOO. or print "\n" >> derek ; cat derek >> 9940exports.archived; thank you, derek Derek B. Smith OhioHealth IT UNIX / TSM / EDM Teams -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>