perl -wMstrict -E 'print for grep /adam/, <>' /usr/share/dict/words #### use warnings; use strict; my $word_file = '/usr/share/dict/words'; open my $fh, '<', $word_file or die "can't open the $word_file file!: $!"; while (my $line = <$fh>){ if ($line =~ /adam/){ print $line; } }