debian man page for bregex

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NAME
	bregex - Bacula's 'regex' engine

SYNOPSIS
       bregex [options] -f <data-file>

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents briefly the bregex command.
       This program can be useful for testing regex expressions to be applied against a list of filenames.

OPTIONS
       A summary of options is included below.

       -?     Show version and usage of program.

       -d nn  Set debug level to nn.

       -dt    Print timestamp in debug output

       -f <data-file>
	      The  data-file  is  a  filename that contains lines of data to be matched (or not) against one or more patterns. When the program is
	      run, it will prompt you for a regular expression pattern, then apply it one line at a time against the data in the file.	Each  line
	      that matches will be printed preceded by its line number. You will then be prompted again for another pattern.

       -n     Print lines that do not match

       -l     Suppress lines numbers.

SEE ALSO
       regex(7)

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by Bruno Friedmann <bruno@ioda-net.ch>.

Kern Sibbald							  30 October 2011							 BREGEX(8)