CHAPTER 2Patterns and RegularExpressions
This chapter is a bit of a digression; if you are comfortable with patterns and regular expressions, you can just skip ahead to Chapter 3, where I begin the discussion of shell syntax. However, if you are unfamiliar with patterns and regular expressions, this material turns out to be very important for understanding and illustrating the coming examples. Furthermore, you will have to learn it to be an effective shell programmer, so if you haven't learned it before, start early.
Shell programming is heavily dependent on string processing. The term string is used generically to refer to any sequence of characters; typical examples of strings might be a line of input or a single argument to a command. Users ...
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