my @voblist = `cat /home/vobadmin/scripts/voblist.txt`; foreach my $i (@voblist) { chomp($i); my $vob = "\/vobs\/$i"; chomp($vob); print '[' . timestamp() . '] Start Time'. "\n"; print OUTFILE '[' . timestamp() . '] Start Time'. "\n"; print "VOB is: $vob\n"; chdir $vob; open($FH, "cleartool find . -all -print|") or die "Something went wrong\n"; print STDERR "Loading Array with elements from $vob\n "; while (<$FH>) { push @element, $_; unless ($. % 10) { # every 10 lines print STDERR "."; } } print "\n";