Like I said, simple, but powerful and one of the most used command line tools which is why I use it as the example in this article. But grep isn’t the only program that uses regular expressions.

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When working with regular expressions in a shell script the norm is to use grep or sed or some other external command/program. Since version 3 of bash (released in 2004) there is another option: ...