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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Search based on 1st char of a row. Post 58870 by zazzybob on Friday 3rd of December 2004 11:10:25 AM
Old 12-03-2004
Indeed, regular expressions can be your best friend or worst enemy. Take the time to learn them as they are *very* powerful. Here are some links from the front page of a google search - (NOTE: I haven't checked - and therefore do not endorse - these links Smilie )

http://www.robelle.com/library/smugbook/regexpr.html
http://sitescooper.org/tao_regexps.html
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Regular.html

Beware that some regex constructs are specific to perl/sed/grep etc...

Cheers
ZB
 

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URL(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    URL(4)

NAME
url -- Realtek RTL8150L USB Ethernet driver SYNOPSIS
url* at uhub? urlphy* at mii? DESCRIPTION
The url driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Realtek RTL8150L USB-ether bridge chip. The url driver supports the following adapters: CompUSA USBKR100 GreenHouse GH-USB100B Melco Inc. LUA-KTX Sitecom LN013 For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8). DIAGNOSTICS
url%d: watchdog timeout A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the transmission before a timeout expired. url%d: no memory for rx list The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring. SEE ALSO
arp(4), mii(4), netintro(4), usb(4), ifconfig(8) HISTORY
The url device driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.6. AUTHORS
The url driver was written by Shingo WATANABE <nabe@nabechan.org>. BSD
September 18, 2006 BSD
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