note Freddo i have those in my ~/.aliases <pre>... # Perl alias p='perl -nle' #> process file by line, chomp alias pp='perl -ple' #> process file by line, chomp and print alias pdbg='perl -de 1' #> perl debugger alias dpl='perl -MO=Deparse' #> show how perl see this code alias dpl2='perl -MO=Deparse,-l,-p,-q,-sCT' #> show how perl see this code, with line no, parens and more alias cpan='perl -MCPAN -e shell' #> Start CPAN ...</pre> 567774 568459