Greetings, masters of perl, could you please help me out with the following problem: I've got a problem with loading the output of a UNIX command into a hash of hashes. The command in question is tapeutil -f /dev/smc0 inventory. The output looks something like this: 
Slot address 1123
  Slot state ...................... Normal
  Media present ................... Yes
  Robot access allowed ............ Yes
  Source element address valid .... Yes
  Media inverted .................. No
  Volume Tag ...................... A00401

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What I'd like to do is reference each tape (volume tag field) to it's slot address since I can only work with those. I need this for a script that would load the next tape that I want automatically after the first one is full, using command tar --new-volume-script=nextvol.pl Thank you in advance...

In reply to loading a hash of hashes from UNIX command output by novy

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