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Re:Basic Command-Line Data Processing in Linux by nitrogen on Monday August 30, 2010 @03:43AM (#1645644)
(some of the stars got stripped by HN so the above won't work)

Try putting a couple of spaces in front of your code line, like this:

  cat file | perl -p -e "s/.*from ([0-9\.]+).*/\1/g"
See http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

Edit: for simple regexes, sed works well, too, and probably loads slightly faster than perl.

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