06-22-2009
Hi guys,
thanks for the examples.
I am actually looking for a regular expression to search for a string in a text file; if throughout the file no such string it finds occur, it will throw out an error.
Maybe i am looking at the wrong direction but bottom line is i need this to be regular expression and I may not be using the standard unix command to do this.
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