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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Still thin Perl is long winded and cumbersome to use ... Post 302814857 by Skrynesaver on Thursday 30th of May 2013 12:18:22 PM
Old 05-30-2013
I'm a fan of Perl but grep is better at being grep Smilie
Code:
grep $1 comletelist || echo "Not here"

EDIT: Though I sometimes use Perl over egrep because I know what regex library I'm talking to regardless of the host OS

Last edited by Skrynesaver; 05-30-2013 at 01:23 PM.. Reason: To ad egrep caveat
 

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XZGREP(1)							     XZ Utils								 XZGREP(1)

NAME
xzgrep - search compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS
xzgrep [grep_options] [-e] pattern file... xzegrep ... xzfgrep ... lzgrep ... lzegrep ... lzfgrep ... DESCRIPTION
xzgrep invokes grep(1) on files which may be either uncompressed or compressed with xz(1), lzma(1), gzip(1), or bzip2(1). All options specified are passed directly to grep(1). If no file is specified, then standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep(1). When reading from standard input, gzip(1) and bzip2(1) compressed files are not supported. If xzgrep is invoked as xzegrep or xzfgrep then egrep(1) or fgrep(1) is used instead of grep(1). The same applies to names lzgrep, lze- grep, and lzfgrep, which are provided for backward compatibility with LZMA Utils. ENVIRONMENT
GREP If the GREP environment variable is set, xzgrep uses it instead of grep(1), egrep(1), or fgrep(1). SEE ALSO
grep(1), xz(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1), zgrep(1) Tukaani 2010-09-27 XZGREP(1)
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