On Thursday 06 February 2003 01:55 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > At 09:28 AM 2/6/2003 -0900, you wrote: > >On Wednesday 05 February 2003 08:13 pm, David E. Fox wrote: > > > > matter which machine I'm on in the future (be it a friends with linux > > > > on it who's fubared X, or my own) I can edit files & cfgs quickly & > > > > painlessly. > > <snippers> > > >I have it on my system and also on floppy (DOS compatible). It takes up > > very little space, even with source, and runs from a 12K file on my > > system. > > > >It is not likely to be installed, but that is a relatively quick matter to > >fix. What it took for 9.0 was copying its binaries to /usr/bin (doesn't > >depend on any external libs) It even has an "Undo". > > > >Now the one caution is that for supporting regular expressions it pipes > >through sed, so knowledge of sed is necessary to support regular > > expression manipulations. > ><snip> > > > >Civileme > > Ok... thats sounds tres cool to me :) > > Thx CM. Question: what are regular expressions ? And sed? Heard of > it... but no clue what it is... I'll look it up later. The "regular > expressions" has me stumped though mostly. > > ------------- > FemmeFatale > > Good Decisions You boss Made: > "We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that > character from Peanuts." > > - Source: Dilbert man sed man regexp
A regular expression is something like ^[K][k].*retry\ [[:lower:]] Which would match lines starting with K or k and have "retry" followed by a space and lowercase characters It allows for REALLY advanced searches and works well with grep egrep rgrep etc. Civileme
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