This code looks like it would work, but I want to have the initial script to finish completely before I call the second and I believe the code you have will pipe the information as it happens. Some background. What I have is my initial file pulling files from my server and adding to my array if it meets a certain criteria. I added the system(targetscript.pl, @arraytobepassed); after all files have been checked. I want to use that @arraytobepassed in my second file which parses the "filtered array" and does it's own processing. But I can't get it to work since I have my code set to read each line from a file instead of an array. Any help?