Thanks to everyone who has helped me with this so far.

I want to search for a file named weekly in a series of sub-directories. If the file exists I want to gzip two log files and email them to someone.

The file glob works now (thanks Hofmator and others!) but the $a variable doesn't appear to be being processed in the $msg->build section of the code that creates the email messages.

I get this error message when I run the script.

/home/www/abc/logs gzip: /access_log: No such file or directory
gzip: /error_log: No such file or directory
/home/www/def/logs gzip: /access_log: No such file or directory
gzip: /error_log: No such file or directory
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What is the problem? Thanks in advance.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use MIME::Lite;

#use a file glob in a for loop to search for marker file "weekly"

# added braces and changed variable name

for my $a (</home/www/*/logs/weekly>) {

substr($a,-7)=" ";

print $a;

#build a mail message with the access_log & error log files gzipp'ed
#and attached

my $msg = MIME::Lite->build(
        From => 'root@abc.xyz.com',
        To   => 'john.doe@joesoap.org',
        Subject => "gzipp'ed log file",
        Type     =>'x-gzip',
        Path     =>"/usr/bin/gzip < $a/access_log |",
        ReadNow => 1,
        Filename =>"access_log.tgz");
$msg->send;

my $msg2 = MIME::Lite->build(
        From => 'root@abc.xyz.com',
        To   => 'john.doe@joesoap.org',
        Subject => "gzipp'ed log file",
        Type     =>'x-gzip',
        Path     =>"/usr/bin/gzip < $a/error_log |",
        ReadNow => 1,
        Filename =>"error_log.tgz");
$msg2->send;

}
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Edit Masem 2001-08-21 - Code tags added, extra CRs removed