Regex is used everywhere. Most websites on the internet use it in one form or another. Regex is also common in utilities and applications, like ripgrep, Vim, Neovim, Emacs, and lots more.

But grep isn’t the only program that uses regular expressions. Awk, sed, Perl, editors like VIM and emacs, and many other programs can use regular expressions for pattern matching.

Linux is powerful, flexible, and can do just about anything. However, to really get the most out of Linux and your computer (s), there are certain skills and habits you need to bolster; otherwise, you ...