19REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
In the next few chapters, we are going to look at tools used to manipulate text. As we have seen, text data plays an important role on all Unix-like systems, such as Linux. But before we can fully appreciate all the features offered by these tools, first we have to examine a technology that is frequently associated with the most sophisticated uses of these tools—regular expressions.
As we have navigated the many features and facilities offered by the command line, we have encountered some truly arcane features, such as shell expansion and quoting, keyboard shortcuts, and command history, not to mention the vi editor. Regular ...
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