Understanding regex behaviour when using quantifiers
So, in the above code , sed replaces at the start. does that mean sed using the pattern e* settles to zero occurence ? Why sed was not able to replace Teest string.
I am having trouble parsing rpm filenames in a shell script.. I found a snippet of perl code that will perform the task but I really don't have time to rewrite the entire script in perl. I cannot for the life of me convert this code into something sed-friendly:
if ($rpm =~ /(*)-(*)-(*)\.(.*)/)... (1 Reply)
I have these two files in current dir:
oos.txt
oos_(copy).txt
I execute this find command:find . -regex './oos*.txt'And this outputs only the first file (oos.txt)! :confused:
Only if I add another asterisk to the find find . -regex './oos*.*txt' do I also get the second file... (7 Replies)
Hi,
Please help me to understand the bold segments in the below regex.
Both are of same type whose meaning I am looking for.
find . \( -iregex './\{6,10\}./src' \) -type d -maxdepth 2
Output:
./20111210.0/src
In continuation to above:
sed -e 's|./\(*.\{1,3\}\).*|\1|g'
Output: ... (4 Replies)
I have the following line of code that works wonders. I just don't completely understand it as I am just starting to learn regex. Can you help me understand exactly what is happening here?
find . -type f | grep -v '^\.$' | sed 's!\.\/!!' (4 Replies)
Hi Guys,
Could you please kindly explain what exactly the below SED command will do ?
I am quite confused and i assumed that,
sed 's/*$/ /'
1. It will remove tab and extra spaces .. with single space.
The issue is if it is removing tab then it should be Î right ..
please assist.... (3 Replies)
I am not a big expert in regex and have just little understanding of that language.
Could you help me to understand the regular Perl expression:
^(?!if\b|else\b|while\b|)(?:+?\s+){1,6}(+\s*)\(*\) *?(?:^*;?+){0,10}\{
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This is regex to select functions from a C/C++ source and defined in... (2 Replies)
Hi everyone,
This regex looks simple and yet it doesn't make sense how it's manipulating the output.
ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:49:c2:35:6v
inet addr:192.16.1.1 Bcast:192.168.226.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr:... (2 Replies)
I'm trying to get some exclusions into our sendmail regular expression for the K command. The following configuration & regex works:
LOCAL_CONFIG
#
Kcheckaddress regex -a@MATCH
+<@+?\.++?\.(us|info|to|br|bid|cn|ru)
LOCAL_RULESETS
SLocal_check_mail
# check address against various regex... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I need some guidance with understanding this Perl script below. I am not the author of the script and the author has not leave any documentation. I supposed it is meant to be 'easy' if you're a Perl or regex guru. I am having problem understanding what regex to use :confused: The script does... (3 Replies)
Hello All,
While googling on regex I came across a site named Regulex Regulex:JavaScript Regular Expression Visualizer
I have written a simple regex ^(a|b|c)(*)@(.*) and could see its visualization; one could export it too, following is the screen shot.
... (3 Replies)