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How to escape metacharacters for egrep like metaquote from Perl?
Perl has a function called metaquote() to escape all special characters for a regular expression.
Is there an equivalent technique for egrep?
Example: If I am searching for the string abc.def.ghi, I ...
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Regex works in shell but not through Perl script
I'm having trouble executing a Perl script through the Unix shell using Perl's system command.
I've had more complex regex commands I had to adjust accordingly to convert from Unix to Perl, and they'...
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