BK-REGEX(1)

🦋 bk regex 🦋

BitKeeper User’s Manual — manual name: none. Bestie, buckle up, because regex is about to eat. 💅✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

bk regex — demo program to show regular expressions in BitKeeper. It’s giving “tiny command, big regex energy.” 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bk regex regex string [string ...]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So some commands — most notably bk grep — can take a regular expression as an argument. This man page describes the BitKeeper version of regular expressions. This command may be used to match a regex against one or more strings to see examples of how the regular expression matching works. Lowkey iconic for testing your regex vibe check. 🧚

Regular expressions are used to search text for approximate (or exact) matches. Knowing how regular expressions work can be useful — they are quite powerful, fr fr. Suppose that the words “foo,” “bar,” and “blech” were considered inappropriate in your source tree; the following command would find all files which contain any of those words:

bk ‐U grep ’foo|bar|blech’

BitKeeper is compatible with the PERL regular expression syntax. For a quick start on PCRE, please see bk‐pcre. Periodt. 🔥

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👑 CATEGORY 👑

Utility — that’s the category, bestie. 🌈

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