John,

While you are probably right about being confused about "the stuff between the angles", the original program did have a wild card in it. In the first pass through the loop, it would look like </home/scott/manydirs/0/*test.txt>.

However, on thinking about this problem more, I think I would rewrite the code to look like this:

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

  my @EXON_IN = </home/scott/manydirs/[0-9]*/*test.txt>;
  foreach my $file (@EXON_IN){
     #do whatever it was my coworker wanted to do
     #Greg, are you looking?
  }
[download]

Which is probably what I would have done if I was doing this from scratch, but when presented with another's code, it is often hard to think of the "right" thing to do right away.

Thanks,
Scott

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