Grep Pocket Reference by Bambenek, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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grep Pocket Reference

1. grep Pocket Reference

Introduction

Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online Comments and Questions Acknowledgments

From John Bambenek From Agnieszka Klus

Conceptual Overview Introduction to Regular Expressions

Quotation Marks and Regular Expressions Metacharacters POSIX Character Classes Crafting a Regular Expression

grep Basics Basic Regular Expressions (grep or grep -G)

Match Control General Output Control Output Line Prefix Control Context Line Control File and Directory Selection Other Options

Extended Regular Expressions (egrep or grep -E) Fixed Strings (fgrep or grep -F) Perl-Style Regular Expressions (grep -P)

Character Types Octal Searching Character Properties PCRE Options

Introduction to grep-Relevant Environment Variables Choosing Between grep Types and Performance Considerations

When to Use grep -E When to Use grep -F When to Use grep -P Performance Implications

Advanced Tips and Tricks with grep

Backreferences Binary File Searching Useful Recipes

IP addresses MAC addresses Email addresses U.S.-based phone numbers Social Security numbers Credit card numbers Copyright-protected or confidential material Searching through large numbers of files Matching strings across multiple lines

References

Index About the Authors

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