In this lesson, you will learn about regular expressions within a Unix-like environment.
###Objectives ### By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- Understand and be able to utilize regular expressions to better streamline searches through text.
- Utilize grep options.
- Utilize metacharacters and literal characters for grep searches.
Approximately 2 hours.
- Chapter 19 of The Linux Command Line(PDF) and try to follow allong with the examples
- Chapter 6 of Unix and Linux: Visual Quickstart Guide, Fifth Edition
- Chapter 8 of Beginning Unix
- Chapter 5 of Think Unix
When you have completed and worked through the above readings, please take the Week 6 Lesson 1 Assessment.