#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use File::Basename; if (@ARGV < 2) { print "usage: ", basename($0), " \n"; exit 2; } my $pattern = shift; for my $string (@ARGV) { if (my @matches = $string =~ /$pattern/) { print "\e[0;32mmatches:\e[0m "; if ($#- != 0) { print "\n"; my $counter = 0; for my $match (@matches) { print $counter++.": \"".$match."\"\n"; } } else { print "$&\n"; } } else { print "\e[0;31mno match\e[0m\n"; } }