This will do it:
perl -n -e 'print if /Testing/m' test.txt
'-p' prints every line in the file so you'll see the matching lines twice (one because of '-p' and the other because of 'print') and the non-matching lines once (because of '-p').
Look in 'perldoc perlrun' for differences on '-p' and '-n'.
raj wrote:
Hello All, I am new to perl. I want to display the lines which have "Testing" word. I have to do this in command line.
I tried the with following options. Its not work what I expected. It dispalys all lines.
perl -p -e 'print if /Testing/m' test.txt
ANy help much appreciated!
Regs, Durai.
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