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0 pointsderrida6mo ago0 comments

Second question

> awk '/^laugh/ { print $0 }' night-before-christmas.txt

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aidenn06mo ago· 1 in thread

Get rid of the caret and it works; it wants lines with laugh, not lines that start with laugh,

Ah cheers thanks, my stupid! (And what's worse - wasted some others attention and even thought what someone took time to create was at fault!) However thankful for kind directness there.

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