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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting I am learning regular expression in sed,Please help me understand the use curly bracket in sed, Post 302904540 by migurus on Wednesday 4th of June 2014 03:42:53 PM
Old 06-04-2014
A snippet from man regexp
Code:
Matching a specified number of occurrences
    A BRE interval expression has the syntax ``\{l\}'', ``\{l,\}'',
   or ``\{l,u\}''.
    An ERE interval expression has the syntax ``{l}'', ``{l,}'', or
   ``{l,u}''.

Also,
I found this site:
http://http://txt2re.com/index-python.php3
very helpful when dealing with regular expressions
 

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LDBSEARCH(1)						    System Administration tools 					      LDBSEARCH(1)

NAME
ldbsearch - Search for records in a LDB database SYNOPSIS
ldbsearch [-h] [-s base|one|sub] [-b basedn] [-i] [-H LDB-URL] [expression] [attributes] DESCRIPTION
ldbsearch searches a LDB database for records matching the specified expression (see the ldapsearch(1) manpage for a description of the expression format). For each record, the specified attributes are printed. OPTIONS
-h Show list of available options. -H <ldb-url> LDB URL to connect to. See ldb(3) for details. -s one|sub|base Search scope to use. One-level, subtree or base. -i Read search expressions from stdin. -b basedn Specify Base DN to use. ENVIRONMENT
LDB_URL LDB URL to connect to (can be overrided by using the -H command-line option.) VERSION
This man page is correct for version 1.1 of LDB. SEE ALSO
ldb(3), ldbedit(1) AUTHOR
ldb was written by Andrew Tridgell[1]. If you wish to report a problem or make a suggestion then please see the http://ldb.samba.org/ web site for current contact and maintainer information. This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij. NOTES
1. Andrew Tridgell http://samba.org/~tridge/ LDB 1.1 06/17/2014 LDBSEARCH(1)
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