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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Finding a word in a file Post 302164537 by Yogesh Sawant on Tuesday 5th of February 2008 06:14:23 AM
Old 02-05-2008
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Code:
perl -nl -e 'while (m/yyy(.*?)yyy/g) { print $1; }' file

 

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