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I am using WinXP... with perl -ne 'print if /pattern/ and $i++ < 100 ' myfile.txt I just get a message "The file can't be found" :( Ritter
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Re: Re: Re: (How) can I use regex patterns to find matching lines in a textfile?
by jmcnamara (Monsignor) on Nov 20, 2002 at 12:35 UTC

    Windows requires double quotes. This should work:     perl -ne "print if /pattern/ and $i++ < 100" file.txt

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    John.

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