#!/usr/bin/perl -n00 use strict; use warnings; our $snippet; BEGIN { my $snippetfile = shift; # first file on command line open my $fh, '<', $snippetfile or die "Can't read '$snippetfile': $!\n"; $snippet = <$fh>; # get entire block into $snippet close $fh or die "Can't close filehandle of '$snippetfile' properly: $!\n"; } if (/architecture/s) { print; # print current block print $snippet; # print snippet from file 1 } elsif (/signal/s) { print $snippet; # print snippet first print; # then the current block } else { print; }