On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 04:31:39PM -0500, djgoku wrote: > What is the best way to keep track that a certain file is the same one > that has been previously looked/opened at. I'd think that one of the File::* modules would be able to generate a list of unique files in a directory. Have you looked at (off the top of my head) File::Find or File::Next and their ilk? -Andy