in reply to [perlrun/perlre] one-liner to match "readable" lines

am I missing something?

cat gcc-295.pkg | perl -ne 'print if /^[A-Za-z]/'

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Re: Re: [perlrun/perlre] one-liner to match "readable" lines
by kvale (Monsignor) on Oct 07, 2002 at 17:32 UTC
    To save a few keystrokes, eliminate cat: 
    perl -ne 'print if /^[A-Za-z]/' gcc-295.pkg

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    -Mark
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