To collect the file names from the command line, replace

print "Enter file name:\n";
chomp(my $file = <STDIN>);
open(DATA,$file);

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with

chomp(my $infile = shift);
open(DATA,$infile) or die "Could not open $infile\n";

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Add

chomp (my $outfile = shift);
open OUTPUT, '>', $outfile or die "Could not open $outfile\n";

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before the final for loop. Replace

  printf "%-4s: %20s,  %-8s %6s\n",

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with

  printf OUTPUT "%-4s: %20s,  %-8s %6s\n",

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In reply to Re^3: Unable to write output to file taken as input from command line by GotToBTru
in thread Unable to write output to file taken as input from command line by zing

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