I just wanted to say thanks for trying. The first line of your reply says "The script is not exiting because the file does exist." This is not so.

I purposely deleted it to test for this error condition. The script still ignores the conditional statement unless(-e $inow_fas).

It also ignores the line die "$inow_fas does not exist\n" unless (-e $inow_fas);.

Thanks anyway.

   -Mike