$ echo -e "123\n456\n789" > foo.txt $ hexdump -C foo.txt 00000000 31 32 33 0a 34 35 36 0a 37 38 39 0a |123.456.789.| 0000000c $ cat foo.txt | perl -wle 'use strict; while(my $line = <>) { chomp $line; ($line =~ m/^\d+$/) ? print qq{number ok:"$line"} : print qq{number error:"$line"} }' number ok:"123" number ok:"456" number ok:"789" $ unix2dos foo.txt unix2dos: converting file foo.txt to DOS format ... $ hexdump -C foo.txt 00000000 31 32 33 0d 0a 34 35 36 0d 0a 37 38 39 0d 0a |123..456..789..| 0000000f $ cat foo.txt | perl -wle 'use strict; while(my $line = <>) { chomp $line; ($line =~ m/^\d+$/) ? print qq{number ok:"$line"} : print qq{number error:"$line"} }' "umber error:"123 "umber error:"456 "umber error:"789 $