On 2006-08-30, Martin Jørgensen wrote:
> "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 2006-08-29, Martin Jørgensen wrote:
>>>
>>> Oh... What's the name of my regexp parser if I type sed '/\(\.\{9\}
>>> \)\{6\}/d' in bash or a script?
>>
>> sed
>
> Is awk also a regexp parser?

Yes.

> Is the shell? Like bash?

Bash can use regular expressions in the non-portable [[ ... ]]
syntax. See the man page for more info.

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