So I've been trying to do this with the O'Reilly Learning Perl, but it is seemingly too basic. I've tried hacking it together with my own limited knowledge and am hitting the wall. I'm trying to take this bash script and convert it to perl: 
#!/bin/bash
service=`echo $1 | sed -n "s/.*Service:\(.*\)State.*/\1/p"`

state=`echo $1 | sed -n "s/.*State:\(.*\)/\1/p"`

company=`echo $1 | sed -n "s/.*Service:\(.*\)/\1/p" | cut -c 1-6`

echo $company
echo $state
echo $service

if [ "$state" = "down" ]; then

echo $service $company | telalertc -g LoadBalancer -m "web server is n
+ot responding at $service" -check "$2 status" -host 172.16.3.104 -tag
+s $company


else

        echo $state $service $company | telalertc -g LoadBalancer -can
+celnc "$2 status" -host 172.16.3.104 -tags $company
fi

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Edit: davorg - added code tags

In reply to Converting bash script to perl by mlsrar

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