my @commands = ( { name=>'genhealth', arg=>'/sys/general', file=>'genhealthfile' }, { name=>'bat', arg=>'/env/bat', file=>'batteries' }, # ... { name=>'ssd', arg=>'/env/ssd', file=>'ssd_file' }, ); for my $cmd (@commands) { print "### Working on ", $cmd->{name}, "\n"; run3 ['uemcli', '-d', $vnxe_ip, '-u', $username, '-p', $password, $cmd->{arg}, 'show', '-detail'], undef, \my $out; my $str = decode('UTF-16', $out, Encode::FB_CROAK); my $filename = $cmd->{file}.'.txt'; open (my $fh, '>', $filename) or die "$filename: $!"; print $fh $str; close $fh; }