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Hello, I am looking for a command line tool like grep to perform some regex searching over files. Grep seems pretty limited with its meta-characters and wanted a tool that ...
  1. 05-03-2008 #1
    Gareth Watson
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    Command Line Regex tool

    Hello,

    I am looking for a command line tool like grep to perform some regex searching over files. Grep seems pretty limited with its meta-characters and wanted a tool that had a full regex implementation. Much like Perl.

    Just so you know I have actually solved my particular issue by piping a few grep commands together, but this being Linux, I am sure there must be a better solution.

    So if someone with more knowledge than me has any comments regarding a grep like tool with good regex support I would be really appreciative.

    Thanks,

    Gareth.
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    Code:
           -P, --perl-regexp
              Interpret PATTERN as a Perl regular expression.

-- excerpt from man grep, (GNU grep) 2.5.1
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