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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Include white spaces while using CUT command Post 302425439 by devtakh on Friday 28th of May 2010 01:42:59 AM
Old 05-28-2010
Most welcome

$ - will match if the line has <\college> as the last string in the line and nothing else
and .* - will match even if there are other strings in the line after </college>
FYI,
^ -> instructs to match a string in the begining of the line
$ -> instructs to match a string in the end of the line
. -> means any character
* -> zero or more occurance of the preceeding character

so
.* -> means match zero or more occurance of any character.

hope this clears your doubts.
 

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