#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Data::Dumper; my $max = 10**10; my $new_bin = 'A'; my %bins; my %dir; my $int; while() { chomp; my ($size, $name) = split /\s+/; $name .= ++$int if $dir{$name}; # Disabiguation; all your names are identical $dir{$name} = $size; } DIR_LOOP: for my $name (sort {$dir{$b} <=> $dir{$a}} keys %dir) { for my $bin_name (sort {$bins{$b} <=> $bins{$a}} keys %bins) { if ($bins{$bin_name} + $dir{$name} < $max) { $bins{$bin_name} += $dir{$name}; next DIR_LOOP; } } $bins{$new_bin++} = $dir{$name}; } print Dumper(\%bins);