#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Expect; my $object = Expect->spawn( "bash" ) or die "Could not spawn bash shell.\n"; $object->log_stdout(0); $object->max_accum( 128 * 512 ); my $header = "Test Log Header"; $object->send( "cat test_log.txt\n" ); my ($matched_pattern_position, $error, $successfully_matching_string, $before_match, $after_match) =$object->expect( 5 , -re => $header ); if( $error ne undef ) { die "Could not find header.\n"; } my @rows = split /^/ , $after_match; printf "Found %d lines after match in file.\n", scalar( @rows );