here's a bit more info...

Basically I have a directory of around 15,000 files. Some of these files get updated each day. I have writen a PERL script that check sums all the files and works out what has changed each night.

I then want to take these updated files (where the file names are stored in an arrary) and tar them up so they can be pushed onto my companies website.

As the symlink thingy doesn't work at the moment I currently have to tar up all 15,000 files each day as I must maintain the symlinks

hth