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fugue on 04/03/12


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Print any line matching the regular expression /foo/ in input.txt

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URL: http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/rr1gs/need_to_use_perl_e_to_search_for_string_and/c47y0au

-n means loop over the lines of all file names given on the command line, or standard input if none were given. -E is a version of -e that enables newer features like say, which is the same as print but adds a newline.

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  1. perl -nE 's/\s+$//, say if /foo/' input.txt

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