Goals for this Hour

In this hour, you learn about

  • Filename wildcards

  • Advanced wildcards

  • Regular expressions

  • Searching files using grep

  • A more powerful grep

  • A fast grep

This hour begins by looking at the two pattern-matching tools frequently found in UNIX. A foray into commands that use these tools immediately follows.

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