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→INVESTIGATION 2: EXTENDED REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
# Reissue the above pipeline command using '''egrep''' instead of ''grep'':<br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">egrep "^[+-]?[0-9]+$" numbers2.dat | tee better-number2.txt | more</span><br><br>You should have seen the same results, but the extended regular expression required less typing.<br><br>
# Issue the following linux pipeline command to display signed, unsigned, whole, and decimal numbers:<br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">egrep "^[+-]{0,1}[0-9]{1,}[.]{0,1}[0-9]*$" numbers2.dat | tee better-number3.txt | more</span><br><br>You can also use extended regular expression symbols for '''grouping'''. For example, you can search for repetitions of GROUPS of characters<br>(like a word) as opposed to just a single character or a GROUP of numbers as opposed to a single digit.<br><br>
# Issue the following Linux command to check that you created those hard links: <br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">bash /home/murray.saul/scripts/week9-check-2</span><br><br>If you encounter errors, then view the feedback to make corrections, and then re-run the checking script.<br>If you receive a congratulation message that there are no errors, then proceed with this tutorial.<br><br>
# Issue the following linux pipeline command to download another data file called '''words.dat''':<br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">wget <nowiki>https://ict.senecacollege.ca/~murray.saul/uli101/words.dat</nowiki></span><br><br>
# View the contents of the '''numbers2.dat''' file using the '''more''' command and quickly view the contents of this file.<br>You should notice valid and more invalid numbers contained in this file. When finished, exit the more command.<br><br>
