#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my %base = (xx => [{ls => 'ls xx 2>&1'}, {ps => 'ps xx 2>&1'}, ], yy => [{top => 'top yy 2>&1'}, {finger => 'finger yy 2>&1'}, ], ); my %output; for my $key (keys %base) { for my $element (@{$base{$key}}) { my $inner_key = (keys %$element)[0]; my $command = (values %$element)[0]; my $result = `$command`; push @{$output{$key}}, $result; } } print Dumper \%output;