#!/usr/bin/perl $cmd0= 'find /path/to/wavs/ -iname "*.wav" > /path/to/logs/all_wav_files.txt'; `$cmd0`; open(FH,'<','/path/to/logs/all_wav_files.txt'); foreach my $line () { $line =~ s/,/\,/g; print $line; } close(FH);