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Sll – strip long lines from grep output

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3 pointskevinburke3 comments

Two of the other million ways to do this are:

    perl -ne 'print if length()<1024'
    awk 'length($0)<1024'

Note that if the last line is not newline terminated then the sll and the awk solutions will add a newline, while the perl one will not.

The equivalent way to preserve the newline semantics in Perl these days is this:

    perl -lnE 'say if length()<1024'

You and your new-fangled "perl5". In my day we didn't have "say", or "use", or these fancy "refererences". :)