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  • Basic regex is what all the old unix tools originally used and is what you get if you just use "grep", extended regex (also called posix regex) is what you get with egrep or grep - E and is what most programs are referring to if they allow regex searches, and PCRE or Perl-compatible regex is like Posix regex with a whole shit-ton of extensions.

    Popular Posts Across MetaFilter 2009

  • You'd still have a device:system at the root, which would also be a device:posix-system providing words to access POSIXy libc functions.

    Snell-Pym » HYDROGEN: Device drivers 2009

  • July 30th, 2009 at 6: 00 pm PDT does this mean the “reply-to address” is now redundant? reply posix

    Gmail Kisses “On Behalf Of” Goodbye, Enables Support For Third-Party Outbound Servers Jason Kincaid 2005

  • The os. name string specifies which platform you are using, such as 'nt' for Windows and 'posix' for Linux/Unix users.

    A Byte of Python Swaroop, C. H. 2003

  • Here's a great account of the good, nerdy thoughtfulness that went into generating the command-line screenshots for Tron: Legacy; JT Nimoy decided that he'd go for a mix of l33t and realistic, and landed on emacs eshell and posix kill: In addition to visual effects, I was asked to record myself using a unix terminal doing technologically feasible things.

    Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2011

  • So we went with posix kill and also had him pipe ps into grep.

    Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2011

  • SCO lost because Novel owns Unix, the utilities, posix, and how it operates.

    freshnews.org - most clicked links 2010

  • • Experience with low latency messaging solutions, multi-core programming, posix shared memory and performance tuning desirable

    jobs.joelonsoftware.com 2010

  • • Experience with low latency messaging solutions, multi-core programming, posix shared memory and performance tuning desirable

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  • • Experience with low latency messaging solutions, multi-core programming, posix shared memory and performance tuning desirable

    jobs.joelonsoftware.com 2010

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