you may also try these:
- given a glob (like /var/log/accesslog*) as argument print a descendant list of distinct occurences of the nth field, like IPs (BEGIN is your friend)
- given a filename print only the content between two words
- realize a mini calculator using the native math ability of Perl, print errors too
- format a given file to have line of n chars
have fun!
L*
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