Mastering Regular Expressions With Glenn Stafford
Abstract:
As strange as regular expressions sounds, it is nothing more than a pattern matching tool. This extremely powerful tool allows anyone to formulate powerful queries!
By mastering regular expressions (regex), one can perform complex search and replace operations, validate input, and parse text with ease. This include cleaning data, extracting information, or building sophisticated search features, regex will undoubtedly become an invaluable part of your programming toolkit.
This presentation will demonstrate the powerful use of regular expressions with the commands vi, sed, grep, and awk.
Anyone, novices to highly skilled Unix/Linux professional skilled professionals, can benefit from this presentation.
Bio:
Glenn Stafford is a veteran Unix/Linux professional best known for automating server installaions, software code conversions, version control environments, shell programming, and automating system administration tasks.
His notable accomplishments include:
Automating installations where servers were ready for full accreditation within 30 minutes without the use of Commercial Off The Shelf configuration tools.
Automated the migration of VmWare virtual servers to the AWS Government Club services.
When Glenn lived in the Chicagoland area, he was a dedicated member of Uniforum presenting on various topics and facilitating the UNIX Bootcamp and UNIX Top Gun workshops.
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