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Power searching using grep

• voodoochilo 14y ago
  grep and in general regex mean survival. i have to admit that in my early unix years i did not understand (the power of) grep until i learnt perl. funny, isn't it?
  • giZm0 14y ago
    I use it almost every day, but in a very limited way and I can't say I really understand it I just have a feeling that it you could use it so much more
    • voodoochilo 14y ago
      what really got me into re in the first place was "the dragonbook" back in 1990. very good background stuff.
  • johncoltrane 14y ago
    Learning regular expressions properly is something I've been saving for later for a long time; thinking that, one day, it could make me a real programmer. Now, after one year and a half of exclusive vimming, I've learned a lot more on regex than in all the years before. Whithout actually trying.