Thank you for the pointers!

The script is run on a linux system, I used foo.exe to illustrate the fact that it is an executable- what's a less confusing way to designate an executable for unix/linux? The foo executable must be run from within the target directory, I don't believe it can be run on a directory.

For the sake of improving my perl abilities I figured this would be a good script to write in perl, however the actual shell is tcsh.

I've included the error message below; each time I run the script I get hundreds of these errors all with different and seemingly random characters after "cd:"- if "cd: 0:" means that it is attempting to cd into directory "0", then something must be wrong with the list, because the first scalar on that list should be 00112.

sh: line 0: cd: 0: No such file or directory

In reply to Re: trouble with a simple script by apollo
in thread problem running executable in subdirectories by apollo

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