#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $template = "A14 A7 A7 A9 A10 A7 A7 A9 A9"; my @quotas; push @quotas, [ unpack $template, $_ ] while ; use Data::Dumper; print Dumper(\@quotas); __DATA__ Filesystem usage quota limit timeleft files quota limit timeleft /var/mail 1394 15360 16384 0 0 0 /home 255999 307200 308224 34 0 0