KevinBr:

No, I don't mind. Here's a stripped down version of the report processor:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use myUtils;

###
# CONFIG
###

my %Apps = (
   CSV_Reports   => { 
       cmdline=>'CSV_reports.pl',  ext=>'.csv',
       inbound=>'/Rpts', outbound=>'/Rpts/CSV'
   },
   Excel_Reports => {
       cmdline=>'NME_report.pl', ext=>'.nme',
       inbound=>'/Rpts', outbound=>'/Rpts/XL', 
   },
);

my $DozeTime = 5; #5 * 60; # 5 min
my $DieFile  = '/var/log/report_processor.halt';

###
# CODE
###
open my $LOG, '>>', '/var/log/report_processor.log' or die $!;
print $LOG join("\n", box_fixed(80,
                           'Reports Log',
                           'Started at: ' . myUtils::timestamp()
                 ),
           ), "\n\n";
while (! -e $DieFile) {
   for my $RName (keys %Apps) {
      chdir $Apps{$RName}{inbound};
      my @files = map { s/\s+$//; $_ }           # and chomp the names
                  grep { /$Apps{$RName}{ext}$/ } # files for this repo
+rt
                  qx( ls -1 --file-type );       # check inbound dir f
+or
      for my $FName (@files) {
         print $LOG myUtils::timestamp() . ": processing $RName: infil
+e $FName\n";
         my $curtime = time;
         system($Apps{$RName}{cmdline}, $FName);
         $curtime = time - $curtime;
         print $LOG "\t$curtime secs.\n\n";
         print "mv $FName $Apps{$RName}{outbound}/$FName";
         rename($FName, "$Apps{$RName}{outbound}/$FName") or die $!;
      }
   }
   sleep $DozeTime;
}
if (-e $DieFile) {
   print $LOG "Normal halt at " . myUtils::timestamp() . "\n\n";
   unlink $DieFile;
}
else {
   print $LOG "*UNEXPECTED HALT: " . myUtils::timestamp() . "\n\n";
}
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The basic shell for something that would generate the data file would be like:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;

my $FName = '/Rpts/geezer.csv';

open my $OF, '>', "$FName.work" or die $!;
print $OF <<JUNK;
A bunch of junk to generate a report.
JUNK
close $OF;

rename "$FName.work", $FName;
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...roboticus