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Linux.com: CLI Magic: Regular Expressions and Metacharacters

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“Most of us probably use regular expressions–pattern that
describes a set of characters–every day without realizing it.
Chances are, however, that you aren’t really using them to their
full potential.

“Consider how you search a file for a word. You probably type
something like:

grep expression *.html …”

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