note marto <p>The point OP made is that perls [doc://chmod] does not work the same as chmod on their linux system. The linux chmod command assumes that missing digits are leading zeros, perls [doc://chmod] does not operate in the same manner. The docuemtnation I suggested reading (and understanding) provides examples and an explanation that the number passed should be an octal number. Perhaps to fully understand this I should also have suggested that OP read <c>man chmod</c> to understand why it works the way it does. The docs also point to portability issues on certain platforms.</P> <p>IMHO reading the documentation for each command provedes sufficent information to explain why they behave differently.</P> 1005083 1005102