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Old 01-30-2008
KevinADC KevinADC is offline
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another suggestion:

Code:
perl -ne '@t = grep{/^cool/}<>; print $t[-1]; exit' path/to/inputfile
change single quotes to double-quotes if using Windows
Last edited by KevinADC; 01-30-2008 at 05:44 PM.. Reason: had to add "exit"
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