Workshop
The Workshop summarizes the key terms you learned and poses some questions about the topics presented in this chapter. It also provides you with a preview of what you will learn in the next hour.
Key Terms
exclusion set A set of characters the pattern must not contain.
inclusion range A range of characters a pattern must include.
left rooted Patterns that must occur at the beginning of a line.
regular expressions A convenient notation for specifying complex patterns. Notable special characters are ^ to match the beginning of the line and $ to match the end of the line.
wildcards Special characters that are interpreted by the UNIX shell or other programs to have meanings other than the characters themselves. For example, * is a shell ...
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