Question

I have a perl script that is only keeping the last set of records for a named set and I have more than one set of records. So its over writing the data in the hash and just keeping the last set. I need help in printing out all the records.
Thanks!

Here’s a copy of my script:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my ($ServerName)=@ARGV;
my %MyItems;
foreach my $ServerName(@ARGV){
   while (my $line = <>){
     chomp $line;
              if ($line =~ m/.* \w+ \d{2} (\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}) \d{4}: ([^:]+):backup:/){
                  my $ServerName = basename $ARGV, '.mydomain.com.backup-software.log'; #$ARGV is reading input from command line
                  my $BckupSet =$2;
                  my $BckupVal=$1;
                  $MyItems{$ServerName}{$BckupSet}->{'1-Server'}    = $ServerName;
                  $MyItems{$ServerName}{$BckupSet}->{'2-BackupSet'} = $BckupSet;
                  $MyItems{$ServerName}{$BckupSet}->{'3-StartTime'} = $BckupVal;

                  if ($line =~ m/(backup-date)[:=](.+)/){
                      my $BckupKey="4-DateStamp";
                      my $BckupVal=$2;
                      $MyItems{$ServerName}{$BckupSet}->{$BckupKey} = $BckupVal;
                  }

                  if ($line =~ m/(backup-time)[:=](.+)/){
                      my $BckupKey="5-Duration";
                      my $BckupVal=$2;
                      $MyItems{$ServerName}{$BckupSet}->{$BckupKey} = $BckupVal;
                  }
                  if ($line =~ m/(backup-size)[:=](.+)/){
                      my $BckupKey="6-Size";
                      my $BckupVal=$2;
                      $MyItems{$ServerName}{$BckupSet}->{$BckupKey} = $BckupVal;
                  }
                  if ($line =~ m/(Backup succeeded)/){
                      my $BckupKey="7-Status";
                      my $BckupVal="Succeeded";
                      $MyItems{$ServerName}{$BckupSet}->{$BckupKey} = $BckupVal;
                  }
                  if ($line =~ m/(ERROR)[:=](.+)/){
                      my $BckupKey="8-Status";
                      my $BckupVal="Unsuccessful";
                      $MyItems{$ServerName}{$BckupSet}->{$BckupKey} = $BckupVal;
                      print "$BckupKey=$BckupVal\n" if debug;
                  }
              }
   } #endwhile
   print Dumper(\%MyItems);
   for my $ServerName(keys%MyItems){
     for my $BckupSet(keys%{$MyItems{$ServerName}}){
       for(sort keys%{$MyItems{$ServerName}{$BckupSet}}){
         #print$_,'=>',$MyItems{$ServerName}{$BckupSet}{$_},';';
         print$_,'=',$MyItems{$ServerName}{$BckupSet}{$_},';';
       }
       print"\n";
     }
   }
} #END foreach

Here’s what it looks like when it dumps:

$VAR1 = {
          'server1.name.colo' => { 
                                        'set1' => {
                                                               '3-StartTime' => '07:08:15',
                                                               '1-Server' => 'server1.name.colo',
                                                               '6-Size' => '72.04 GB',
                                                               '7-Status' => 'Succeeded',
                                                               '4-DateStamp' => '20100820060002',
                                                               '5-Duration' => '01:08:13',
                                                               '2-BackupSet' => 'set1',
                                                               '8-Status' => 'Unsuccessful'
                                                             },
                                        'set2' => {
                                                                '7-Status' => 'Succeeded',
                                                                '6-Size' => '187.24 GB',
                                                                '3-StartTime' => '01:51:25',
                                                                '4-DateStamp' => '20100820000003',
                                                                '1-Server' => 'server1.name.colo',
                                                                '5-Duration' => '01:51:21',
                                                                '2-BackupSet' => 'set2'
                                                              },
                                        'set3' => {
                                                              '3-StartTime' => '23:00:05',
                                                              '4-DateStamp' => '20100814230003',
                                                              '1-Server' => 'server1.name.colo',
                                                              '8-Status' => 'Unsuccessful',
                                                              '2-BackupSet' => 'set3'
                                                            },
                                        'set4' => {
                                                              '7-Status' => 'Succeeded',
                                                              '6-Size' => '427.75 GB',
                                                              '3-StartTime' => '00:43:20',
                                                              '4-DateStamp' => '20100819200004',
                                                              '1-Server' => 'server1.name.colo',
                                                              '5-Duration' => '04:43:14',
                                                              '2-BackupSet' => 'set4'
                                                            },
                                        'set3' => {
                                                              '7-Status' => 'Succeeded',
                                                              '6-Size' => '46.42 GB',
                                                              '3-StartTime' => '04:42:59',
                                                              '4-DateStamp' => '20100820040002',
                                                              '1-Server' => 'server1.name.colo',
                                                              '5-Duration' => '00:42:56',
                                                              '2-BackupSet' => 'set3'
                                                            }
                                      }
        };

Answer 1

Based on the debug output, it looks like your problem is here:

if ($line =~ m/(ERROR)[:=](.+)/){
    my $BckupKey="8-Status";
    my $BckupVal="Unsuccessful";
    $MyItems{$ServerName}{$BckupSet}->{$BckupKey} = $BckupVal;
    print "$BckupKey=$BckupVal\n" if debug;
}

To save all errors, you’ll need to treat that hash slot as a reference to an array:

if ($line =~ m/(ERROR)[:=](.+)/){
    my $BckupKey="8-Status";
    my $BckupVal="Unsuccessful";
    push @{ $MyItems{$ServerName}{$BckupSet}{$BckupKey} } => $BckupVal;
    print "$BckupKey=$BckupVal\n" if debug;
}

In your dump, the 8-Status values will resemble

'8-Status' => [ 'Unsuccessful', 'Other error', 'Et cetera' ],

If you want to loop over them later, you’d do something like

foreach my $err (@{ $MyItems{$ServerName}{$BckupSet}{$BckupKey} }) {
    print "got $err\n";
}

To get only the first, you’d write

print $MyItems{$ServerName}{$BckupSet}{$BckupKey}[0], "\n";

Another issue is

foreach my $ServerName(@ARGV){
   while (my $line = <>){

Realize that while (<>) { ... } implicitly loops over all files named in @ARGV, so nesting it inside a loop over @ARGV doesn’t quite make sense. If your command line is of the form

$ readlogs server1 server2 server3 log1 log2

then you’d want to first remove from @ARGV the servers using shift. Distinguishing arguments the user intends as server hostnames could be tricky. One convention is using -- to signal the end of option processing, so you might

my @servers;
while (@ARGV) {
  my $server = shift;
  last if $server eq "--"
  push @servers => $server;
}

die "Usage: $0 server .. -- log ..\n" unless @ARGV;

while (<>) {
  # ...
}