Hey thanks guys :) I'm trying to get it to work with the code you suggested, but I am not getting anywhere. I'm sure it's something I am doing wrong, but I am not getting any errors, and it isn't removing thumbs. I am wondering if there is a newline or some whitespace in there causing it not to match? I have tried removing anything else that might be in there but no luck, it could be because I don't know what I'm doing :)) This is what I have thus far:

@picturetemp = `ls -A $sourcepath`;
print @picturetemp;
@picturelist = grep{ $_ ne 'thumbs' }@picturetemp;
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