Am 29.01.2011 16:01, schrieb Willie Wong: > This is way OT, but I hope someone here can give me a quick answer: > > I have a text-file. Individual lines of it run from 10 to several > thousand characters in length. Is there a simple* command that allows > me to only display the lines that are, say, at least 300 characters > long? > > Thanks in advance, > > W > > > * simple of course includes appropriate incantations of sed/awk/perl/etc egrep '.{300,}'