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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