#!/usr/bin/perl -wl use strict; my $dir = qw(/home/idlerpg/graphdump); opendir(DIR, $dir) or die "Cannot open $dir:$!"; my @files = reverse sort readdir(DIR); my $currlevel = 68; my $numfiles; my $totalfiles = scalar @files; FILE: for my $file (@files) { open IN, '<', "$dir/$file" or die "Ack!:$!"; $numfiles++; undef $/; my $data = ; my $pos = index($data,'McDarren'); $/ = "\n"; next FILE if $pos == -1; seek(IN, $pos,0); chomp(my $line = ); my ($user,$level) = (split /\t/, $line)[0,3]; next FILE if $level <= $currlevel; print "$file $user $level"; print "Processed $numfiles files (total files:$totalfiles)"; exit; } #### $ time ./gfather.pl dump.1167332700 McDarren 71 Processed 9054 files (total files:57868) 39.15 real 0.84 user 0.75 sys