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drl, that works perfectly, thank you.

2 things - I wouldn't know how to go about including that in ONLY A PERL SCRIPT and the input is a variable, not a file.

Well, sadly, it doesn't seem to work. I used some test text with the trim thing you linked to, did not work with newlines. look:
sub trim{
my $string = shift;
$string =~...

If I understand correctly, what that is doing is removing what you tell it to remove, am I right? If I am right, I can't use that, the damn file is 2149 lines, and it always changes.

If that's not...

I have been unable to find this anywhere; I have a multiline variable, and I want to print the text between two patterns in that variable. So the variable is

My
real
name
is
not
DeadmanAnd I...

I can try that but is there anything easier to use like bash -x?

If this is the wrong forum, move it. It seemed like the best.
Does anyone know of a perl thing that does the same thing as bash -x except for perl? I know I can output the information I want at the...

Ahhhhh man not again. What a stupid mistake. Thanks.

When I run this:
PDHDURL=`/usr/bin/curl --silent http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php | /usr/bin/grep -o http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/.*.gif | head -1`
echo -e "$PHDURL"
It is totally...

Well look at that. How stupid of me. That did it, thanks.

Ah, ok. Damn, the error is still unexplained.

Scrutinizer, Well until this works, .previouscm.txt is just a text file with random letters and numbers. Once this script works, I will add a few lines at the bottom writing all of the current url's...

Hello, I've got this little script that gets a bunch of comics and puts them in an html file. However, when I check that the comic URL is there and that it's a new one, I get the "too many arguments"...

I'm using a custom prompt with PS1 in my .profile. It is
PS1="\[\e[0;35m\]\u@\e[0;31m\h\[\e[m\]\[\e[0;36m\]:\W\[\e[m\] \[\e[0;32m\]\$\[\e[m\] \[\e[0;37m\]"

and it works well, as you can see,...

ah thank you. now there is no error and it also removes duplicates. I was changing things yesterday and some of the lines are messed up, and the date didnt change for 5 entries, and before it showed...

thanks, frans, thats exactly what I wanted. I'll just change the date format. thanks for the help.

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I have a bunch of log files generated from a shell script, its all of my facebook friends and if theyre logged in. Each file is a different person. It runs every 5 minutes. The log file is just the...