Hello Monks, Thank you for your support. Here is the deal I start out looking for a line with bgs, If file has that. Drop into a couple more if's, UGLY, UGLY. ****Else, There is no bgs. So, add a here document after a trigger SAY: syslogd.Only problem: It fills every file with the stinkin here document. over and over. How can I check the file for bgs. If it is Not there. Add it after syslogd? 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/scripts/best1collect -q>>\$LOG 2>>\$LOG\n"
+;
my $cf_dir = "/root/sysedge/cf_files";
#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 =~ /bgs/){
                print $line;

                if ($line =~ m/$agent/){
                    $line = $collect;
                #    next;
                }
                if ( $line =~ m/best1collect/) {
                    $line = $collect;
                #    next;
                }
        } else { ($line =~ m/'syslogd'\)/);
                my $newline = $. + 3;
                $newline = $bgs;
                print OUT $newline;
                next;
           }
        #}
    } continue {
     print OUT $line;
     #print $line;
    }
}

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