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BREGEX(8) | Network backup, utilities | BREGEX(8) |
NAME¶
bregex - Bacula's 'regex' engineSYNOPSIS¶
bregex [options] -f <data-file>DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the bregex command.This program can be useful for testing regex expressions to be applied against a list of filenames.
OPTIONS¶
A summary of options is included below.- -?
- Show version and usage of program.
- -d nn
- Set debug level to nn.
- -dt
- Print timestamp in debug output
- -f <data-file>
- The data-file is a filename that contains lines of data to be matched (or not) against one or more patterns. When the program is run, it will prompt you for a regular expression pattern, then apply it one line at a time against the data in the file. Each line that matches will be printed preceded by its line number. You will then be prompted again for another pattern.
- -n
- Print lines that do not match
- -l
- Suppress lines numbers.
SEE ALSO¶
regex(7)AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Bruno Friedmann <bruno@ioda-net.ch>. This man page document is released under the BSD 2-Clause license.30 October 2011 | Kern Sibbald |