You are making pairs of API requests. You could be working with inconsistent results. You should be opening a pipe and reading one consistent report. Try replacing lines 24 - 29 with something like: (untested)

  open my $awspipe, '-|', qw/aws cloudformation describe-stack-drift­-
+detection-status --stack-drift-detect­ion-id/, $ID
    or die "open aws pipe: $!";
  while (<$awspipe>) {
    chomp; my @f = split /"/;
    $DETECTION = $f[3] if /DetectionStatus/;
    $SYNC = $f[3] if /StackDriftStatus/;
  }
  close $awspipe or die "close aws pipe: $!";

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I translated your grep/awk pipeline because I do not know what your input data looks like, but Perl programmers would normally use regexes with a capture group instead of splitting on " and matching key names blindly. If the aws command outputs JSON, normal practice is to parse the objects using JSON instead of slicing up the text.

In reply to Re: word search in perl script by jcb
in thread word search in perl script by cbtshare

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