Linux Command-Line Fundamentals
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Regular expressions with grep -E and sed

45 min Debian 12

Objective

Learn to describe a text pattern (an e-mail address, a phone number, a configuration line) with a regular expression, then use it to filter with grep -E and to modify with sed. This is what lets you fix a setting on twenty servers in one command, without opening an editor.

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