#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Date::Manip; use Data::Dumper; use File::Find::Rule; sub get_files { my (@dirs) = @_; my $level = shift // 2; # level to dig into my @files = File::Find::Rule->file() ->name('access.log', 'sys.log') ->maxdepth($level) ->in(@dirs); return @files; } sub searchForIP { my ($files, $ip) = @_; local @ARGV = @$files; while (<>) { print "$ARGV:$.:$_" if /$ip/; } continue { close ARGV if eof; } return; } my $numberOfDays = '2 days'; my $dateStart = ParseDate("today"); my $dateEnd = DateCalc($dateStart, $numberOfDays); # To find the every day date1 to date2 my @dates =ParseRecur("0:0:0:1:0:0:0","",$dateStart, $dateEnd); my @datesFormatted = map { UnixDate($_, '%Y-%m-%d') } @dates; # print Dumper \@datesFormatted; my @files = get_files(@datesFormatted); # print Dumper \@files; my $ip = "127.0.0.1"; searchForIP(\@files, $ip); __END__ $ perl test.pl 2018-01-03/access.log:1:127.0.0.1 This is insident 1 in 2018-01-03 2018-01-03/access.log:4:127.0.0.1 This is second insident 4 in 2018-01-03 2018-01-05/sys.log:1:127.0.0.1 This is insident 1 in 2018-01-05 2018-01-05/sys.log:4:127.0.0.1 This is second insident 4 in 2018-01-05