[Cialug] lsof! grep?

[Nathan Stien]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tend to single quote and avoid the multiple '\' issue all together. The
> single quotes eliminate the escaping need for bash.

I was surprised to find that not everyone does this.  Sometimes you
can't use single quotes because you need to do $VARIABLE substitution,
but not usually in a regex.

> To add a fun little regex trick, to match '.so' at the end of a word, and
> not midword (foo.soblah) or end of a line (.so$ from earlier) grep supports
> word boundry tokens (/b) so you can do the following:

I have a similar habit, but I use \< and \> to get beginning and
ending word boundaries.  Picked that up from hitting * in vim, which
takes the word under the cursor and sets the current search regex to
be '\<foo\>'.

$ grep '\.so\>'