bregex8

Usage

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the bregex command.
This program can be useful for testing regex expressions to be applied against a list of filenames.

Options

A summary of options is included below.

-?

Show version and usage of program.

-d nn

Set debug level to nn.

-dt

Print timestamp in debug output

-f <data-file>

The data-file is a filename that contains lines of data to be matched (or not) against one or more patterns. When the program is run, it will prompt you for a regular expression pattern, then apply it one line at a time against the data in the file. Each line that matches will be printed preceded by its line number. You will then be prompted again for another pattern.

-n

Print lines that do not match

-l

Suppress lines numbers.