Many thanks for the replies on this. Also, many apologies for not checking the archive (which I do in 9 out of 10 cases, just was a bit eager for an answer, so I by-passed my usual checks).

Unfortunately, the $ENV{'PATH'} did not work. For some reason, in that particular script, neither did the BEGIN {}. I am going to try an upgrade on the find.pm and if that doesn't work, I will need to re-engineer the way that I read the dir contents (readdir perhaps).

Thanks again for the help,

bb