Hello monks

Back again for some advice. I wrote a script to automate batch-banning of IPs on our netscaler load balancer. This is a _really_ simple script but for some reason this outputs nothing. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

my $workdir=~/txt;
open BAD-IPS, "< $workdir/bad-ips" or die " Couldn't open file: $!";
my $i = 1;

while (my $line = <BAD-IPS>) {
      chomp $line;
      print "add ns simpleacl bp-search-spammer$i DENY -srcIP $line -T
+TL 43200";
      print "hello thar!\n"; # debug line also prints nothing
}

close BAD-IPS;

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[bluethundr@lcent5-1:~/perl] $:./bad_ips.pl 
[bluethundr@lcent5-1:~/perl] $:

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All the ip list is, is a list of suscpected spammers one per line.

something kinda like this... totally fake of course, just in case I'm mistaken in identifying some of the IPs as those of dirty dirty spammers

123.45.67.2
123.45.67.3
123.45.67.4
123.45.67.5
123.45.67.6

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Srsly.. nothing fancy at all. I'm hoping I'm missing something obvious as to why this script has no output at all.

I've tried this out on a few hosts including the one I developed it on, and 2 cloud instances. No love. I've had folks in IRC tell me "works for me", but I'm hoping I can get to the bottom of the issue here.

thanks monks!

In reply to script outputs nothing/nada by bluethundr

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