BREGEX(1)

📦 version 25.0.3, in alpine 3.24

💖 BREGEX(1) 💖 — Backup Archiving REcovery Open Sourced

🌸 NAME 🌸

bregex - Bareos's 'regex' engine. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bregex [options] -f <data-file>

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so this page is the brief little rundown of the bregex command — yes, “documents briefly” is literally the assignment. 📝

And the program itself? It can be useful for testing regex expressions to be applied against a list of filenames. That’s the whole vibe: regex trial runs, but make it filenames. 🧚✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

A summary of options is included below. 👇

  • -? — Show version and usage of program. 👑
  • -d nn — Set debug level to nn. 🔍
  • -dt — Print timestamp in debug output. ⏱️
  • -f <data-file> — The data-file is a filename that contains lines of data to be matched (or not) against one or more patterns. When the program is run, it will prompt you for a regular expression pattern, then apply it one line at a time against the data in the file. Each line that matches will be printed preceded by its line number. You will then be prompted again for another pattern. 🌀
  • -n — Print lines that do not match. 🙅‍♀️
  • -l — Suppress lines numbers. 🤫

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

regex(7) — go peek, iykyk. 💜

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

This manual page was written by Bruno Friedmann <bruno@ioda-net.ch>. 🫶

xoxo, your bregex bestie 💅 — from Backup Archiving REcovery Open Sourced, dated 30 October 2011, with footer credit to Kern Sibbald 💖✨

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