http://www.unix.com – Hello, I was trying to split a string to characters by perl oneliner. Code: echo "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" | perl -e 'split // ' But did not work as with bash script pipe: Code: echo "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" | fold -w1 | sort | uniq -ic Code: 8 1 T 1 a 1 b 1 c 1 d 3 e 1 f 1 g 2 h &nb (HowTos)