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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Grep with wildcard Post 303036269 by abdossamad2003 on Friday 21st of June 2019 08:14:03 AM
Old 06-21-2019
Many thanks
how can i find any help for regex e.g in "man command in terminal"?

test is:
somethin

somethina

somethinabc

something

somethinggg



Code:
grep "something*" test

Code:
somethin
somethina
somethinabc
something
somethinggg

somethina !?
somethinabc !?


but
Code:
grep "something?" test

no thing find
 

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