Thanks ww! I have searched, but ideally, I don't like tutorials in the traditional sense. What works best for me is finding a project to do, and just doing it. Then, I can work my way through what I will need for it. I was thinking of doing a webchat script, but I feel I should get a handle on CLI before I play with CGI. And yes! perldoc is great! If the module (even from cpan)provides it, its a great resource. :) On the advise of boftx I made a perl script which finds world-writeable files under the homedir, and removes that bit. That was fairly easy, once I understood the code.