On Thursday 06 February 2003 06:56 pm, civileme wrote:
> 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
is this the stuff that makes the command line cool,,, or what...

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