Thanks for the quick replies. Here is the code that I have at the moment. This is currently working and I get the desired results (except for the fact that I get duplicates). I have also updated the code with some of your recommendations. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use File::Find;
my $DIRECTORY = "/Users/data/";
find(\&edits, $DIRECTORY);
sub edits()
{
 if ( -f and /.txt$/ ) {  #Find files ending in .txt and drill down al
+l sub dirs
   my $TEXT_FILE = $_; #save the results to $_;
   open MATCHING_FILE, $TEXT_FILE;
   my @all_lines = <MATCHING_FILE>; #Place everything into an array ca
+ll all_lines
   close MATCHING_FILE;
   for my $each_line ( @all_lines ) {
     if ( $each_line =~ /[\d]{1,3}\.[\d]{1,3}\.[\d]{1,3}\.[\d]{1,3}|pa
+ssword|(ssn=)/i ) { #Search for IP or password or ssn=
       #print $each_line, "Found in $File::Find::name\n";
       print $each_line; # Print each line that is found
       }
     }
   }
 }

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Results from all files in a directory
192.168.1.1
192.168.1.1
192.168.1.1
64.22.34.66
221.245.23.44
PASSWORD=FpnmRjE

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what I want to do is remove the 192.168.1.1 dups from being printed along with all the other dups that show up.

In reply to Re^2: Sort/Uniq Help by learningperl01
in thread Sort/Uniq Help by learningperl01

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