OK, Spank me. This question is not quite related to perl, but i know how inteligent you guys all are, and i would realy appreciate your input. I have my main mailbox file at /var/mail/james which when i open it, is simply a plain text file containing a few e-mails, and i have a backup of my file before my machine went down, which i have put at /root/james. I want to merge these two files together i.e put the contents of /root/james into the file /var/mail/james, is there a way to merge these two?