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.NET Regular Expression Designer vs name|grep

A side-by-side look at .NET Regular Expression Designer and name|grep. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

.NET Regular Expression Designer

.NET Regular Expression Designer

Development

.NET Regular Expression Designer is a free open source tool by Microsoft that allows developers to visually create, test, and debug .NET regular expressions. It has features like syntax highlighting, testing against sample text, and explanation of regex components.

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Os & Utilities

grep is a command line text search tool on Unix systems. The `name` command lists all visible file names in the current directory. `name|grep` pipes the output of `name` into grep, allowing you to search through the file names in the current directory to filter and find specific files.

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