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Perl » Language Basics » Perl Command

The -n Switch: print the contents of a file or search for a line that contains a particular pattern


  

 

$ perl -ne 'print;' yourtextFile     # Windows: use double quotes

$ perl -ne 'print if /^Igor/;' yourTextFile

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