lid3213:~> perl -ne "print if /\blid\d+\./" /etc/hosts | wc -l

Yup, there's an OS that's ready for the desktop if ever I saw one...

Heh. What I meant to say was...

So, I clicked on the task bar to launch KWord, and selected File->Open, which popped open a new dialog box. From there, I navigated to the /etc folder, and selected the file called "hosts". I made sure to use the "import as text", since KWord didn't automatically recognize it as a text file. Then I scrolled through the file deleting anything that didn't have "lid" in it. There were a couple of times when I deleted the wrong lines, and didn't notice until that action was out of the undo buffer, so I had to revert to saved and start over. But eventually, when I got to the end of the document, I looked to see what line I was on.



Lordy, I'm glad I don't have to deal with Windows.