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NAME

6        bregex - Bacula's 'regex' engine
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SYNOPSIS

9       bregex [options] -f <data-file>
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DESCRIPTION

12       This manual page documents briefly the bregex command.
13       This  program can be useful for testing regex expressions to be applied
14       against a list of filenames.
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OPTIONS

17       A summary of options is included below.
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19       -?     Show version and usage of program.
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21       -d nn  Set debug level to nn.
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23       -dt    Print timestamp in debug output
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25       -f <data-file>
26              The data-file is a filename that contains lines of  data  to  be
27              matched  (or not) against one or more patterns. When the program
28              is run, it will prompt you for  a  regular  expression  pattern,
29              then  apply  it one line at a time against the data in the file.
30              Each line that matches will be printed preceded by its line num‐
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33       -n     Print lines that do not match
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35       -l     Suppress lines numbers.
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SEE ALSO

38       regex(7)
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AUTHOR

41       This  manual  page  was written by Bruno Friedmann <bruno@ioda-net.ch>.
42       This man page document is released under the BSD 2-Clause license.
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46Kern Sibbald                    30 October 2011                      BREGEX(8)