>> At a shell prompt / command line, enter: >> >> perl -ne '/string/ or print' file >> >> where string is the string and file is the file. > >I prefer 'print unless /string/'. >As if it matters. ;o] I wanted to do this just today. Although, I want to tidy up the resulting line a bit by deleting everything before a colon, so I tried this: perl -ne "/string/ && print s/.*://" file I was surprised that I got this: 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 (one '1' for each match) A bit of playing gave me: perl -ne "/Recipient/ && s/.*:// && print" Which gave me what I wanted, but is rather unsatisfying (esp to the sedder in me). What do other people do? Shouldn't DWIM come into play here? Sam
