in reply to Re: Perl oneliners for Unix commands
in thread VVP:Perl oneliners for Unix commands

I agree. Overkill.

BTW, you probably want single (non-interpolating) quotes in your third item, otherwise you run into the same problem as the first one (and the original question) had:

dmm

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