my %filehandles; sub open_file { my( $filename ) = @_; if( ! $filehandles{ $filename }) { open $filehandles{ $filename }, '>>', $filename or die "Couldn't append to '$filename': $!"; }; return $filehandles{ $filename } } ... my $fh = open_file( 'path1' ); print $fh "Hello\n"; my $fh2 = open_file( 'path1' ); print $fh2 "world!\n"; #### my @services = `systemctl list-unit-files`; if( my @smb = grep { /smb\.service/ } @services ) { my $fh = open_file( 'path1' ); print DATEI "chkconfig smb: OK\n"; print DATEI "Output:_\n " . join( "", @smb) . \n\n; };