Chopping up a comand line return.

Here is my problem, I want to read the contents of a dir, on a linux machine, in proper order according to date (ie. from newest to oldest). My problem is I know how to do it in perl....but not in php. I tried what I use is perl and it doesn't work. Here is what I have that does work. $stuff = ls -C1t /your/dir/to/read/from/$author/; ---works now I want to parse up $stuff to get the 10 or so files names so I can link to them. I just cannot figure out how to do it in php. This is how I would do it in perl/CGI @stuff = same as above foreach $filename (@stuff){ next if $filename !~ /(inc$/i; print = "<a href=\"$author/$filename\">$filename</a>"; } I need something pretty much the same in php...I just don't know why it isn't working quite the same...... thanks for your time in advance., nixter ----------------------------------------------------------- Nick.Stankus Software Engineer Logicon/Sterling Federal 402-232-7870 ----------------------------------------------------------- "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein