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Update and clarify grep regex usage in 05.Rmd #147

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@lmanc lmanc commented Oct 31, 2023

  • Corrected the initial note about the necessity of the -E option in grep. The original note suggested that without -E, grep would treat patterns as literal strings, which is wrong.
  • Added brief explanations differentiating between Extended Regular Expressions (EREs) and Basic Regular Expressions (BREs). By default, grep operates with BRE, but with the -E flag, it switches to using ERE.
  • Provided an example of how to achieve equivalent results using BRE with the -G flag.

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