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I need to write a regular expression for todays date in format 12/11/11? any help will be greatful thanks.

\..\ {3\}$

which one of these does this match

rs.ef$tt
abc.ab
abc.$$$$
abc

I think its the 1st one what do you think?
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Hi I need to simplify this reg expression [ABCDEa-q] is this right
[A-E] [a-q] or [A-E,a-q]


thanks.

Hi can anyone help me with how to simplify this regular expression
[ABCDE]

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IS THIS RIGHT [A-E]

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Hi I am in vi mode and I am being asked to check the line number of the current line using the p command is this possible?

when i do that it highlights all of the "g" in the file as yellow how can i avoid that?

I have this file

People naturally fear misfortune and hope for good
fortune. But if the distinction is carefully studied,
misfortune often turns out to be good fortune and good
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so I saved a mail message of mine to a new dir/file

My question is how do I find the path to my file containing my saved email from my home dir prompt in unix?
Thanks.

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I have this file containing 8 veritcal lines and I need to cut the first two lines into a new file and then cut the next two lines into a new file and so on... any help would be much appreciated. I...

I have a file with three fields of data for example say we have
1420 $12.56 45
3456 $15.89 14
2341 $25.87 32

I need to use a command to show who is getting paid the...

So I have a existing file that I used the uniq command on and I need to save the output to the same file without changing the file name.

I have tried $ uniq filename > filename

then when I...

So I have a existing file that I used the uniq command on and I need to save the output to the same file without changing the file name.

I have tried $ uniq filename > filename

then when I cat...

Hi I need to encrypt the below file using the translate command to shift each letter five characters to the end of the character set.

ALPHABETICAL FACTS.
THE FIRST THREE LETTERS ARE ABC.
THE...

ok but where do i type the contents of the file? sorry i am a newbie to this.

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So do I need to create...

Hi does anyone know how to create a file using the tail command? My book has this file I need to create and it says to use the tail command and that it is possible but I have no idea. Thanks.

but my instructions for the exercise say to use cut and paste commands to swap the fields is that not possible?

I have a file which contains 3 fields separated by tabs example

andrew kid baker

I need to swap kid and baker using cut and paste commands how is this to be done?
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I have a file which contains 3 fields separated by tabs example

andrew kid baker

I need to swap kid and baker using cut and paste commands how is this to be done?
Thanks