cheers guys. that was most insightfull. All in all, it looks like only a few little things have to be done now. But, i am still stuck on what to do with the files once they have been wrote:

I have tried but failed to create a script to descend into directory /var/log/accounts/ where there will be several hundred files (randomly named), pickup one of those files, open it and read the contents into variables. The file is arranged like the following 'username,domain,email,service'. Once it has read the contents in and run the code that i have created, it will then need to close that file, delete that file, and go round in a loop until no more files in that directory exist.

I have asked before, but i am realy stuck and about to smack my head agains my monitor!

In reply to Re: Re: Peruse my code... by Anonymous Monk
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