Hello kind Monks, I am having difficulty pulling data from inside multiple log files and sorting that data into one singular file that consists of every file.

I have created a perl script that can take all of the files in any directory and put the ones that are wanted into an array, (in this case I want all of the log files that start with 'secure'). I can get the files into the array no problem, but I do not know how to condense all of the data into a singular file afterwards.

Here is my code:


my @JanFiles;
my $file;
my $infile;
my $JanFiles;
my @files;
my $dh;
my @secures;
my $outfile = 'secure.200601';
my $INFILE = @secures;

opendir( $dh, "." )
    or die "Can't open '.':$!\n";
while( $file = readdir($dh) ) {
    # add it to the set of files...
    push( @files, $file );
    #print "[$file]\n";
}
closedir( $dh );

# verify that @files got stuff ..
print "===========================\n";
print "Verifying all file names.\n";
foreach( @files ) {
    print "[$_]\n";
}

# Let's make a private reserve
# of files that contain the word
# 'secure' in file name
#@secures;
foreach( @files ) {
    if (/secure/) {
        if ( $_ ne "secure.200601") {
            push( @secures, $_ );
        }
    }
}


#@secures = sort @secures;
print "===========================\n";
print "Verifying only 'secure' file names.\n";
foreach( @secures ) {
    print "secure file = [$_]\n"
}



foreach( @secures ) {
    push (@secures, grep(/^Jan/ , @JanFiles ));
}
foreach( @JanFiles ) {
    print "JAN FILES = [$_]\n"
}    

open (FILE, ">> $outfile") || die "Unable to open Write File! \n";
print FILE @JanFiles;
close FILE;
    
    
#foreach( @JanFiles ) {
#    print "JanFile = [$_]\n"
#}


exit;

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Thank you in advance. I will be here for any further needed information.

In reply to How to output file data from files in an array to one singular file? by perlnovice1900

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