note johngg <blockquote><i><code>@VMSHUT = `cat /tmp/virshlist_shutdown`;</code></i></blockquote> <p>You will also need to remove the line terminator from each line of the array using [doc://chomp] otherwise each file name will have a spurious line terminator at the end.</p> <code> $ cat zzz Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 $ perl -e ' > @lines = `cat zzz`; > print qq{>$_<\n} for @lines;' >Line 1 < >Line 2 < >Line 3 < $ perl -e ' > @lines = `cat zzz`; > chomp @lines; > print qq{>$_<\n} for @lines;' >Line 1< >Line 2< >Line 3< $ </code> <p>I hope this is helpful.</p> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-401112"> <p>Cheers,</p><p>JohnGG</p> </div></div> 1008416 1008416