Thanks for your input, I'd appreciate any other help you can provide.

Can you name the functions in your code snippet? print is one of them. Perl built-ins are listed and documented in perlfunc. perlintro is a nice gentle introduction to perl. See Tutorials for more (including How to RTFM and Where and how to start learning perl).

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"

I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).

** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

All you have to do is change where you print in doexec(). Suppose you've opened OUTPUT earlier in the program. Change your subroutine to something like:

sub doexec
{
    my $okCw shift;
    my @command = @_; # copy so we don't try to s/// aliases to consta
+nts
    for my $word (@command)
        { $word =~ s#{}#$name#g }
    if ($ok) {
        print OUTPUT "@command";
        return 0 unless <STDIN> =~ /^y/;
    }
    chdir $cwd; #sigh
    system @command;
    chdir $File::Find::dir;
        return !$?;
}
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