I am clear. Thanks for replying all.

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From: "Bob Showalter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'raj'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 5:48 PM
Subject: RE: Perl newbie: regexp


> 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
> 
> -p should be changed to -n. Also, you don't need the /m modifier on the
> regex.
> 
> see perldoc perlrun for explanation of -p and -n.
> 
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