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does grep regex work differently on mac?

Just trying to figure out basic use of regexes with grep (or egrep) in mac terminal (BSD grep - 2.5.1-FreeBSD). File to examine (pow.txt) contains the lines : kiytytytyty and blob.mkv command ...
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Perl replace string inside file with the filename?

I need to replace a string in a JSON file with the filename of that file. I successfully matched the string to be replaced using the regex below, but I can't figure out how to get the filename in ...
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Regex editor application for Mac

I'm working with regular expressions on Mac and I'm using: http://reggyapp.com/ But it does not show the exact matches numbered. I'm looking for other applications. Something similar to regex widget:...
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Newlines in sed on Mac OS X

I find that \n doesn't work in sed under Mac OS X. Specifically, say I want to break the words separated by a single space into lines: # input foo bar I use, echo "foo bar" | sed 's/ /\n/' But the ...
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Exclude filetypes in a Textmate project

I know in TextMate I can go to preferences -> advanced -> folder references and play with the regex pattern to remove certain types of files and folders by default. I heard that if you have an ...
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