Many thanks for the notes on 'history', which explain all.
>> I'm told that Mastering Regular Expressions is very good:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex3/
Ah, yes! The owl book.... not sure if my meagre pension will run to that.
(Dare I ask if anyone has a copy they don't need?)
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> There's a whole section on it in man bash
Yeah, I was still a young man when I started trying to get my head around
man bash.....
Chris
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