I need to pull the stats from all my AIX UNIX systems. I'm a TOTAL noobie to UNIX and Perl. I am using Solarwinds Orion to do my monitoring, but it is mostly a "launch pad" for managing and launching perl.

I have a script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
@sa=split("\n",`vmstat`);
@line=split(" ",$sa[1]);
for ($i=0; $i <= @line; $i++) {
        if ( $line[$i] eq "us" ) {
                $j=$i;
                @stat=split(" ",$sa[2]);
                print "Message: CPU user time in percentage: $stat[$j]
+\n";
                print "Statistic: $stat[$j]\n";
                exit 0;
                }
        }
print "Message: ERROR: Can't find CPU user time (us) in output of -vms
+tat- command. \n";
exit 1;

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but I need to pull the info that is on a specific line. How do I do this? I have about 100 more of these I have to figure out as well, this just looked the easiest so far.

Thanks everyone for any help, I'm reading the tutorials as fast as I can....

In reply to returning a specific value from a command by familyofcrowes

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