Hi I am having a hellofa time converting my shell script to a perl script. I am hoping to find some direction. The shell script basically searchs the system for all files and checks them for certain words, then pipes the output to a file, then strips out "fale-positive" results, and sends results to a file, then emails and ftp's file. On the perl side what I am having trouble with is the "grep"ing of the words out of the files. In the shell script I do this by 

while read words.dat
do
find . -type f | xargs grep -i "${words.dat}=" 2>/dev/null >> out.log
done < words.dat

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this gives me the list of files that contain the word(s) in words.dat. I can get perl to work if I use each word individualy like this... 
@find = `find . -type f | xargs grep -i  sales= 2>/dev/null`;
@find = `find . -type f | xargs grep -i  price= 2>/dev/null`;
@find = `find . -type f | xargs grep -i  invoice= 2>/dev/null`;

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but I need to feed it a list of words in a file. How can I do this? thanks

In reply to Help with script to search all files for certain words. by theninja

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