📑 Regular Expressions

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📑 Regular Expressions#

Use regular expressions#

/regexp/

awk '/li/ { print $2 }' mail-list

exp ~ /regexp/

awk '$1 ~ /^J/' inventory-shipped

exp !~ /regexp/

awk '$1 !~ /^J/' inventory-shipped

echo aaaabcd | awk '{ sub(/a+/, "<A>"); print }'

Dynamic regexps#

ls -l | awk 'BEGIN { digits_regexp = "[[:digit:]]+" } $5 ~ digits_regexp { print }'
ls -l | awk 'BEGIN { digits_regexp = "[[:alpha:]]+" } $4 ~ digits_regexp { print }'

POSIX character classes#

Class

Description

[:alnum:]

Alphanumeric characters

[:alpha:]

Alphabetic characters

[:blank:]

Space and TAB characters

[:cntrl:]

Control characters

[:digit:]

Numeric characters

[:graph:]

Characters that are both printable and visible [1]

[:lower:]

Lowercase alphabetic characters

[:print:]

Printable characters [2]

[:punct:]

Punctuation characters [3]

[:space:]

Space characters [4]

[:upper:]

Uppercase alphabetic characters

[:xdigit:]

Characters that are hexadecimal digits

Ignore case#

IGNORECASE = [0,1]

echo -e "ab\ncd" | awk 'BEGIN { IGNORECASE = 1 } /A/ { print }'
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