February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1440 pages
30h 42m
English
![]() | When using the programs in this book, such as grep and vi, you provide a regular expression that the program evaluates. The command will search for the pattern you supply. The pattern could be as simple as a string or it could wildcards. The wildcards used by many programs are called meta-characters. |
Table 24-1 shows a list of meta-characters and the program(s) to which they apply. Only the programs covered in this book (awk, grep, sed, and vi) are shown in Table 24-1. These meta-characters may be used with other programs, such as ed and egrep, as well, which are not covered in the book. Table 24-1 describes ...
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