use Fcntl; my $countfile = 'kontaktcount.txt'; sysopen(COUNT, $countfile, O_RDWR|O_CREATE) or die $!; flock(COUNT, 2) or die $!; my $count = || 0; chomp($count); seek(COUNT, 0, 0) or die $!; truncate(COUNT, 0, 0) or die $!; print COUNT ++$count; close(COUNT);