Warning:The following script is based on your first definition of HOSTS.TXT. You would have to use a split or other means to extract the host name if your HOSTS.TXT is actually as in your second definition.

In fact the second part is rather unclear - perhaps you could provide an exact explanation of what is in your files and what you wish to achieve?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser warningsToBrowser);
use CGI ':standard';


open MAINFILE, "../test/MAINFILE.TXT" or die $!;
my @all = <MAINFILE>;
close MAINFILE;

open HOST, "../test/HOSTS.TXT" or die $!;
foreach my $line (<HOST>) {
    chomp $line;
    open HOSTFILE, "> ../test/results/MAINFILE_$line.txt" or die $!;
    print HOSTFILE "@all";
    close HOSTFILE;
}
close HOST;    


print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "done";

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In reply to Re: Can I copy a file and rename the file to many new files? by jonnyfolk
in thread Can I copy a file and rename the file to many new files? by Anonymous Monk

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