Help needed with regular expressions

[Jeff Garland]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:40:38 -0700, John Wheat wrote
> Good Day,
> 
>   I am seeking help to memorize, utilize, and gain basic proficiency 
> with regular expressions and sed, grep, egrep searches and the like. 
> When I read something like \^{a-r}\ my brain for lack of a bettwer 
> way to say it believes this to be a ctl-d and stops all processing. 
> So if you have a tool or an acronym or perhaps a silly song you have 
> made up that would help me learn this aspect of CLI interaction 
> would you please share that information with me.

I've found that regex coach is hugely helpful in developing and understanding
regexs:

http://weitz.de/regex-coach/

Jeff