Hi Monks, I am changing/adding lines in bunch of files. if $line is something. Change it to something else. elsif $line is correct. leave it alone with next. elsif $line isn't there. Put, it there. If works, elsif removes the $line if the $line is there. elsif the line isn't there. Add it. That works. But,the if/elsif/ also add there stuff too. Then if I put else {next}; That Totally screws up the out file. Can you tell me what is wrong? Thanks! 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $agent = "best1agent_start";
my $bgs=<<HERE;
'bgs')
  /usr/bin/su - patrol /usr/adm/best1_default/bgs/scripts/best1collect
+ -q>>\$LOG 2>>\$LOG
  ;;
HERE
my $collect = "    /usr/bin/su - patrol /usr/adm/best1_default/bgs/scr
+ipts/best1collect -q>>\$LOG 2>>\$LOG\n";
my $cf_dir = "/export/home/f358118/sysedge";
open SH_FILES, "sys.sh" or die "Error: $!";
my @sh_f=<SH_FILES>;
close SH_FILES;
foreach my $sh(@sh_f){
chomp $sh;
open(OUT, ">/$cf_dir/$sh".".OUT")or die "ERROR $!";
my $line;
 open (SH, "$cf_dir/$sh") or die "ERROR $!";
   while ($line = <SH>){
        if($line =~ m/$agent/){
                $line = $collect;
        } elsif ( $line =~ m/best1collect/) {
                next;
        } elsif ($line =~ m/'syslogd'\)/){
                my $newline = $. + 3;
                $newline = $bgs;
                print OUT "$newline\n";
        }
        #else { next };
     print OUT $line;
     print $line;
    }
}

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In reply to if elsif elsif prints all three. by wcj75019

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