open(OUT,">outfile") || die; for($i=0;$i<=$#bigfile;$i++){ $bigfile[$i] =~ s/\0/ /g; print OUT "$bigfile[$i]"; } close(OUT); print "Compressing original file\n"; system("compress original.file"); print "Concatenating other data\n"; system("cat ./incoming/data.file ./static/data.file >> outfile"); print "Sorting Data File\n"; system("asort outfile clean.data 1 6 8 9"); print "Done.\n";