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- agrep
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- Purpose: find a text string with only an approximate match
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- Setup:
- Icon Action/Meaning
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- Throwback Enable Throwback
- Patterns The pattern to search for
- Files List of files to search for pattern in
- Line count output record number before matched record
- Filenames only list only the filenames that contain matches
- Case insensitive case-insensitive search, e.g. 'a' == 'A'
- List non-matches output those records containing no matches
- Max errors maximum number of insertions, deletions or substitutions
- allowed in the search pattern
- Wildcards Displays most pattern wildcards
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- Pattern Wildcards:
- ; pattern1 AND pattern2
- , pattern1 OR pattern2
- <pattern> pattern must match exactly even if approximate search is in use
- . match any single character
- $ match end of line
- \c match 'c' even if 'c' is a wildcard character
- [ start a list of patterns
- ] end list of patterns
- - [a-ho-z] and [^i-n] will both match any char between a and h
- or between o and z
- ^ beggining of a line (note different meaning when inside a list)
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- See Man Page for a more complete list of wildcards
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- Menu:
- Entry Action/Meaning
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- Count Matches display only the number of matches for each file
- Super Sequence find a super sequence of pattern eg DCS will match
- Department of Computer Science
- Define record make record something other than a line eg a paragraph
- or e-mail message
- Insertion change weighting for insertions
- Deletion change weighting for deletions
- Substitution change weighting for substitutions
- No filenames don't list filenames
- Silent run silently
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