Chapter 19. Regular Expressions

 

. . . the intellectual activity associated with software development is largely one of gaining insight.

 Stowe Boyd
Table of Contents
19.1. A Brief Introduction to Regular Expressions
19.2. Globbing

To fully utilize the power of shell scripting, you need to master Regular Expressions. Certain commands and utilities commonly used in scripts, such as grep, expr, sed and awk interpret and use REs.