Hi, This is my first question and I barely know anything with Perl. I have to imagine someone has done something like this before and maybe can get me going in the right direction...understand I stress I know almost nothing about perl. I need a perl script that will search the text inside of all syslog files in a folder. As soon as the search string is found, I want it to move the file into a folder that is named the same as the search string, then move on to the next file. I will have multiple search strings and multiple destination folders. Ex Search for "group1" and move it to group1 folder; search for "group2" and move it to group2 folder, etc. I will likely have a dozen or more strings and related folders. Search will be in thousands of files. Any help is appreciated as I am overwhelmed and way over my head looking at the search results I have found on the web. Thanks, Jeff

In reply to find strings in multiple files, then move files to folders that match string name by jeff92802

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