Hi Dave,

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use CGI;
my $query = new CGI; 
my $filter = "*.pl *.txt";
print "Content-type: text/plain"; 
my $lsoutput = `ls -lt $filter`;
print "\n$lsoutput";
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I have included use strict; and a variable called $filter which, in the example provided, returns the output for the following command ls -lt *.pl *.txt

Hope this helps

marto