Course Outline

Introduction

Regular Expressions in Depth

  • What are regular expressions?
  • Regex engines
  • Basic vs extended regular expressions

Preparing the Development Environment

  • Installing and configuring a regex engine

Characters and Character Sets

  • Working with literals, metacharacters, and special characters
  • Escaping metacharcters
  • Creating a character set
  • Using character ranges and metacharacters
  • Creating shorthand and negative character sets

Repetition, Grouping, Alternation, and Anchors

  • Working with greedy and lazy expressions
  • Grouping metacharacters
  • Using alternation
  • Working with staring and ending anchors

Shell Globs

  • Using character sets, character classes, and wildcards
  • Pattern matching
  • Using extended globs with commands
  • Using brace expansion

BASH Extended Regular Expressions

  • Working with regular expressions in conditionals
  • Using regular expressions with grep
  • Using extended regular expression in sed
  • Using regular expressions in AWK

Summary and Conclusion

Requirements

  • A basic understanding of BASH.

Audience

  • Web Developers
 14 Hours

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