On 3/30/06, Hans Meier (John Doe) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
If we are going to pick nits then it should be grep -c "<employee>" fn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>