Actually, VMS just wants . separated directory names inside square brackets, with a prepended . if you want to explicitly state that it's relative to your current location, and appended ellipsis ... if you mean "this directory and everything below it". [.home.peter.stuff...]*.*;*, for example, would be roughly analogous to ./home/peter/stuff/*.*, but there's no comparable operator in UNIX for the ... bit.

Simple, see?

(Yes, I am a VMS admin:-)

Thanks for the other stuff, but I really don't know what a DAG or a node map is - however, I avoid that in this case by running on Win32, which doesn't have those pesky symlinks.

But I will definitely be using File::Find.