一个正则表达式，就是用某种模式去匹配一类字符串的一个公式。很多人因为它们看上去比较古怪而且复杂所以不敢去使用——很不幸，这篇文章也不能够改变这一点，不过，经过一点点练习之后我就开始觉得这些复杂的表达式其实写起来还是相当简单的，而且，一旦你弄懂它们，你就能把数小时辛苦而且易错的文本处理工作压缩在几分钟（甚至几秒钟）内完成。正则表达式被各种文本编辑软件、类库（例如Rogue Wave的tools.h++）、脚本工具（像awk/grep/sed）广泛的支持，而且像Microsoft的Visual C
This book is about a set of oddly named UNIX utilities, sed and awk. These utilities have many things in common, including the use of regular expressions for pattern matching. Since pattern matching is such an important part of their use, this book
This combination reference and tutorial provides a comprehensive yet concise look at UNIX for users of Mac OS X. The book is fully up-to-date with the 10.4 (Tiger) release of OS X which is built on top of a UNIX system. Building upon Mark Sobells A
