Content preview from Learn Linux Shell Scripting - Fundamentals of Bash 4.4
- What is a search pattern?
- Why are regular expressions considered greedy?
- Which character in search patterns is considered a wildcard for any one character, except newlines?
- How is the asterisk used in Linux regular expression search patterns?
- What are line anchors?
- Name three character types.
- What is globbing?
- What is possible in extended regular expression syntax that is not possible with normal regular expressions under Bash?
- What would be a good rule of thumb for deciding whether to use grep or sed?
- Why are regular expressions on Linux/Bash so hard?
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