note sonalig Thanks, Friedo. I am doing the following in the script: <code> export PATH; Run a command that requires the above exported PATH. </code> When running the script it says, "cannot execute. No file or directory". I am using backticks to execute the command. I tried using system and it didn't work either. Am I missing something? Also,Is there a way to run cp, mv commands of bash from perl scripts? 691108 691110