Here are some quick links on bash regular expressions, pretty good links to bookmark, if you use, regular expressions in bash regularly. I especially like the tldp link at number 3.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/bash-regular-expressions
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-bash.html
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html#VARMATCH
http://wellington.pm.org/archive/200005/codegen/index9.htm

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