Hello quine, thanks for the response,
The problem I have is that I want to have a cron job run this script
and the directory that the files are moved to are not visible nor accessible by the uploader. Once the files are uploaded and moved, the uploader no longer has access to them. (well accept for the small timeframe between cron jobs approx. 1-5 minutes max)

A perl solution would be acceptable to me, accept I have coded only one module in perl in my life , You probably heard of it..... "Hello World"


Shell scripting I can muddle through as you can see by the script I have written so far.

So any example even in perl would benefit my issue.
thanks again