The two nicest perl one-liners I wrote so far:

perl -e'socket S,2,1,0;connect S,pack sa14,2,"\nD\321:\226\231";$/=select S;$|=print"D ! @ARGV\nQ\n";print$/ <S>=~/51.*?^(.*?)^\./sm' flu
Query the DICT server at 209.58.150.153 (miranda.org) for the word you specify as commandline arg, and display the first result. The script is endian-agnostic.

perl -ne '/TEST/and$c=6+print@p;$c-->0?$#p=-print:push(@p,$_)>3&&shift@p'
Prints lines that match /TEST/, the 3 lines before the match and the 6 after. Never prints a line twice (which can easily happen accidently if after a match there's another match 7 liner down). You can adjust the number of preceding / following lines by changing the '3' and '6' in the source.

You can also find these along with two others at my home node.

In reply to Time to golf by xmath

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