# build regular expression from command line args my $re; foreach my $arg (0 .. $#ARGV){ if($arg == $#ARGV){ $re .= "/(\\x01.?$ARGV[$arg].?\\x01)/"; }else{ $re .= "/(\\x01.?$ARGV[$arg].?\\x01)/&&"; } } while (){ if($re){ print "$_\n"; } } print "equivalent grep: grep -P \"$re\"\n";