Dunno why forkIt fell off the bottom. You're exactly right about the flow of the program. ForkIt is supposed to send a child off to run the command.

Thanx for your sorting sub. I'll plug that in. It didn't even occur to me that the ls call would show up as a forked thing and throw off the rest of the tests. Many thanx for pointing that out.

I've been thinking about moving to a system that doesn't use the copied, zipped, and verified lists, since I have a status hash.

Gonna go implement your excellent suggestions and some of the other ideas I've come up with.

Thanx.