[TriLUG] Perl question. . .

[Kevin Hunter]

At 3:17pm -0500 on Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Michael Peters wrote:
> Brian Henning wrote:
>> There's undoubtedly a more elegant way...
> 
> Or at least a different way :)

And yet another way ... If it doesn't have to be perl, you could try:

$ grep file "unique part of line" > newfile

$ grep -E file "regex to match line" > newfile

or as part of a pipeline:

$ cat file | grep -E "regex" > newfile


Cheers,

Kevin