Re^2: perl one liner to print a line

You can exit sooner with

perl -ne'print, last if $. == 4'
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Re^3: perl one liner to print a line by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Dec 12, 2008 at 07:05 UTC
I prefer: `perl -ne'print and close ARGV if $. == 4' file.txt` [download] It works better with multiple files on the command line. `;-)`	[reply] [d/l] [select]