I'm trying to coble the code example below to perform work on the file name in the list. I have code that will pgp a single passed file name but I would like to loop through a file list and perform the same process against each filename in the list. How can i incorporate the $cmd component with the loop example such that each file_name in the list can be acted up on? I.e., i've tried substituting the print request with the cmd command but there's something fundamental i'm missing with this attempt

#code snippet that works in another script:
$cmd = "gpg --recipient $gpg_key -q --yes -e $directory/$file_name";
$rc = system($cmd);

#code loop example i'm having trouble combining with 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $file = "junk";
open (FH, "< $file") or die "Can't open $file for read: $!";
my @file_name;
while (<FH>) {
    push (@file_name, $_);
}
close FH or die "Cannot close $file: $!";

print @file_name;    # see if it worked

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In reply to act on a file list by perl197

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