open me, '>f:\scripts\text\nodeup.txt'; print me "$ARGV[1] $ARGV[2] is UP on $ARGV[0].\n"; close me $ROUTE="myfile" open route, $ROUTE or die " can't $route\n"; @lines= my $TEST = $ARGV if (grep {$test eq $ARGV} @lines) { do command here} close ROUTE; exit 0;