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cat /come/and/play/with/$i | perl -ne 'print if length((split /,/)[10]) > 6'
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perl -ne 'print if length((split /,/)[10]) > 6' /come/and/play/with/$i
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cat file | some_command and its args ...
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some_command and its args ... file