[FWP] more japh golf

["David L. Nicol" <david@kasey.umkc.edu>]

Steve Lane wrote:

>           perl -le '$_=`man perlfaq1`;print/"(.*)" s/'
> 
> is not capitalized, and is w/o comma, but it's close (i guess).


You can run a match on a constant; it doesn't get modified, so
the named temporay variable is not required


            perl -le'print`man perlfaq1`=~/"(.*)" s/'

If we're relying on having a working man command, why not go
with piping, for 

            man perlfaq1|perl -lp0e'($_)=/"(.*)" s/'



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