And just like sed -i, perl -i supports adding a backup extension. Also you can get awk-like perl by using -a, for example: perl -nale 'print $F[1]' # note fi

And just like sed -i, perl -i supports adding a backup extension. Also you can get awk-like perl by using -a, for example: perl -nale 'print $F[1]' # note fields start at 0 unless you change $[ You can also make grep, but it's a bit long perl -ne 'print if /foo/'