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Re: [SLUG] Script needed

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Subject: Re: [SLUG] Script needed
From: "Adam Kennedy" <adam@nospam.netregistry.com.au>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:26:22 +1000
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> perl -F: -anle 'print $F[0]' </etc/passwd
>
> > perl -e 'print grep { s/^(\w+)\:.*$/$1/; 1; } <>' < inputfile >
outputfile
> >

True, but that is a way of applying any arbitrary regex...
Comes in very handy for doing lots of other things too.

More complicated, but more powerfull.

Adam


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