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    This document discusses using extended regular expressions with the grep command in Linux/Unix. It provides 7 examples of using extended regex patterns to search for words within files, including using quantifiers like +, ?, (), {}, and | (or). Example patterns search for words containing a minimum or range of characters, optional characters, grouped characters, and alternations between characters. Using extended regex with -E allows more powerful searching than basic regex.

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    This document discusses using extended regular expressions with the grep command in Linux/Unix. It provides 7 examples of using extended regex patterns to search for words within files, including using quantifiers like +, ?, (), {}, and | (or). Example patterns search for words containing a minimum or range of characters, optional characters, grouped characters, and alternations between characters. Using extended regex with -E allows more powerful searching than basic regex.

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    linuxnix.com /grep-command-regular-expressions-examples-iii/

    Surendra Anne 8/4/2011

    In our the previous post we saw how to use Basic regular expression along with grepping to search for words and
    played across different basic regular expressions. In this post, we will see how to use extended regular
    expressions to increase the power of grep command even better than Basic regular expression.

    Extended regular expressions:

    + --Match one or more occurrences of the previous character.

    | -- Match Either character

    ? Match 0 or 1 occurrence of the previous character.

    () match a group of characters

    {number} Match number of occurrence of a character

    {1, 3} Match a character which is 1 to 3 times repetition

    {5, } Match a repeated character which is repeated 5 or more


    times.

    Note1: To use this extended regular expressions we have to use E option give grep the capability to understand
    Extended regular expressions.
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    Note2: egrep command is nothing but grep with E option, so please dont learn it. If the grep command it self can
    do the work for you, why to learn new Linux command?

    Examples:

    Example1: Search for a word which contains one or more occurrence of b between a and c. The below command
    will search for words like abc, abbc, abbbc etc.

    grep E ab+c
    filename

    Example2: Search for a word which contains zero or one occurrence of b between a and c. The below command
    will search for ac, abc. This is a bit tricky as the first search ac do not contain b. As ? states, it searches for zero or
    one occurrence of a character.

    grep E ab?c
    filename

    Example3: Search for multiple words with single grep command.

    Suppose you want to search for john and you want to search for marry as well. Do not use two grep commands as
    shown.

    grep john filename

    grep marry
    filename

    Instead of using two grep commands, use -E options to search multiple words with single grep command.

    grep E john|marry filename

    How about searching three words with single grep command?

    grep -E 'john|marry|tony'
    filename

    Example4: Search for a word which contains either a or b, but not both a and b between d, e characters

    grep E d(a|b)e filename

    Interval regular expressions with grep


    Example5: Search for a word which contains only 2 b between a and c character

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    grep E ab{2}c
    filename

    Example6: Search for a word which contains 3 to 4 b between a and c character. so this will search for abbc,
    abbbc, and abbbbc as well.

    grep E ab{2,4}c
    filename

    Example7: Search for a word which contains 3 or more b between a and c character. This will search for abbbc,
    abbbbc, and so on.

    grep E ab{3, }c filename

    Note: When we are using {} we have to give a range, but in this example, we did not provide range we just started
    the range but did not end the range which indicates infinity.

    Please share your thoughts on this.

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