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in thread Print next N lines after a pattern is matched.

Maybe manutd doesn't know <> meaning. It read a line from standard input, and if you have an argument in the command line statement, perl will interpret (by default) that it is a file which has to read as standard input (see perlrun)

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Re^5: Print next N lines after a pattern is matched.
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 23, 2011 at 21:58 UTC
    To read from FILE, he just has to change <> to <FILE>.