This will find the literal text "GL*{3}G" in your fasta file, and will print the line number as well as the actual line where it was found. If that trigger text was supposed to be a regular expression you'll need to show us an actual regular expression that is Perl compatible.

perl -nle 'm/\QGL*{3}G\E/ && print "$.: $_"' file.fasta

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Dave

In reply to Re: some help by davido
in thread some help by pepri

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