#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use List::Util qw(sum); # Grab text files from archive directory with glob function my @files = glob '/export/home/date_file*'; my %counts = ( AB => 0, AC => 0, AD => 0, AE => 0, FG => 0, ); for my $file (@files) { open my $fh, '<', $file or die "$file: $!"; while ( my $line = <$fh> ) { my $var = substr $line, 41, 2; $counts{ $var }++ if exists $counts{ $var }; } close $fh or die "$file: $!"; } my $sum = sum values %counts; for my $type ( keys %counts ) { print "$type\t: $counts{$type}\n"; } print "Total \t: $sum\n";