Re: Wish to keep only those lines which start with letter s, and delete all other lines.

Golfing a bit:

perl -i -ne'/^s/i..print'
# or if we don't care about capital s...
perl -i -ne'/^s/..print'
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update: s/-ine/-i -ne/g # stupid mistake

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Re: Re: Wish to keep only those lines which start with letter s, and delete all other lines. by blakem (Monsignor) on Dec 06, 2001 at 06:01 UTC
Did someone say golf? ;-) `perl -i -pe'$_ x=/^s/i'` [download] -Blake	[reply] [d/l]