Can anyone tell me of a better way to do this?
Yes. Check your arguments. This little snippet could cause havoc if called with
$ snippet.pl '| rm -rf *' 'ouch'

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Take a look at Two-arg open() considered dangerous for details.

My point is that specialized utilities that have been around for a long time, like grep, have more than speed going for them. In general, they'll handle edge cases better.

If you want to demonstrate "the power of Perl", remember that power can be used for good or evil. :-)

Do not rebuke them with harsh words ... but rather lead them gently - with URLs - so that they may learn wisdom.

In reply to Re: pattern match -vs- *ix grep by VSarkiss
in thread pattern match -vs- *ix grep by ministry

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