#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use diagnostics; open my $read_log, '<', '/home/jayu_rao/test_output/app.log' or die $!; open my $write_tmp_app_log, '>', '/home/jayu_rao/test_output/write_tmp_app.log' or die $!; my @patterns = ( qr/.*Error.*/, qr/.*error.*/, qr/.*ERROR.*/, qr/.*FATAL.*/, qr/.*Critical.*/, qr/.*exception.*/, ); my @lines=<$read_log>; my $i; for (@patterns){ for $i (0..$#lines) { next unless $lines[$i] =~ $_; my $a = $i - 5 < 0 ? 0 : $i - 5;; my $b = $i + 5 > $#lines ? $#lines : $i + 5; for $i($a..$b){ print $write_tmp_app_log $lines[$i] }; } } close $read_log; close $write_tmp_app_log;