Gavin Bowlby am Donnerstag, 30. März 2006 21.45: > How about: > > cat fn | grep <string to be searched for> | wc
When I posted a "cat | grep" the first (and last) time, several people got a well known heart attack :-) grep <string to be searched for> fn | wc > as a non-Perl approach to the problem... [...] Agreed, but OT here ;-) Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>