Linux Regex Tutorial using sed & awk | Linux Today

Linux Regex Tutorial using sed & awk

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Mokhtar Ebrahim
Nov 23, 2018

In order to successfully work with the Linux sed editor and the awk command in your shell scripts, you have to understand regular expressions or in short regex. Since there are many engines for regex, we will use the shell regex and see the bash power in working with regex.

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Mokhtar Ebrahim

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