Hello All ! I am learning perl. I have a file in the format like the following 
name: url1.domain1.com
date: 2004/2/1
unwanted info: blah blah blah

name: url2.domain5.org
date: 2004/3/12
unwanted info: blah blah blah

 .
 . 
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What I would like is a one-liner which results in: 

1. url1.domain1.com 2004/2/1
2. url2.domain5.org 2004/3/12

...and on...

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My closest I have got is the following... but obviously I am missing something. perl -n -e 'print if s/^name: |^date: // ' file.txt I have tried others using the ternary operator. I saw some tricks using a hash table for other but similar purposes but it seemed comlicated. For some reason "tr" does not work either although I would for the sake of learning just use perl. And help ? Thanks in advance.

In reply to Simple perl one-liner for transforming text files by m5m5m

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