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Re^2: How does $. work in one liner?by afoken (Chancellor) |
| on May 29, 2016 at 08:51 UTC ( [id://1164435]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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In your example, you don't need the $_. This will print lines 1 and 2 from the file test.txt: Assuming an OS that follows the POSIX spirit, this will also print the first two lines of a file, but probably without reading the entire file, and probably without starting an interpreter:
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