aputerguy sent the following at Tuesday, November 24, 2009 5:10 PM
>
> Seriously, there are times to use Perl and times not to... But launching
> perl seems a bit of overkill when I just have to do a simple match in a
>.bashrc script or when I need a small shell script wrapper.
Looking at the man page for everything in /bin that matches the pattern
*.exe find the following that may be of interest. Testing to see if these
actually work is left as an exercise for the OP. :-)
pcregrep - a grep with Perl-compatible regular expressions.
grep, egrep, fgrep - print lines matching a pattern
-w, --word-regexp
Select only those lines containing matches that form whole
words. The test is that the matching substring must either be
at the beginning of the line, or preceded by a non-word
constituent character. Similarly, it must be either at the end
of the line or followed by a non-word constituent character.
Word-constituent characters are letters, digits, and the
underscore.
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