Every Linux system comes with a dictionary file: a huge list of words in your language. This "words" file is useful for spell-checking, but you can put it to use in many different ways. Learn more ...

W hile Linux isn't strictly a text-only system, it has a reputation for making better use of plain text than any other ...

Bash has quietly made scripting on Unix systems a lot easier with its own regular expressions. If you're still leaning on grep and sed commands to get your scripts to do what you need from them ...

The I2A2 reflector DBM ignores case in alphabetic characters when it matches a regular expression to the names it knows. Formal Regular Expression Rules. These are the formal rules for forming basic ...

They are not confined to the UNIX world, but they are certainly pervasive there. Regex engines are at least partially implemented in a host of common UNIX tools, including grep, awk, vi and Emacs.

Hello all, Have a quick question that I think the powers of Ars can solve. I have an existing linux log parsing script that is working fine but I want to add new functionality to it. Given the ...

Name Regular Expressions. The reflector DBM can be asked to search for a common name by means of a Basic UNIX regular expression applied to all common names known to the DBM. A regular expression ...