DOT-Files/Gentoo/gentooamd/home/user/.tldrc/tldr/pages/common/grex.md

# grex

> Generate regular expressions.
> More information: <https://github.com/pemistahl/grex>.

- Generate a simple regular expression:

`grex {{space_separated_strings}}`

- Generate a case-insensitive regular expression:

`grex {{[-i|--ignore-case]}} {{space_separated_strings}}`

- Replace digits with '\d':

`grex {{[-d|--digits]}} {{space_separated_strings}}`

- Replace Unicode word character with '\w':

`grex {{[-w|--words]}} {{space_separated_strings}}`

- Replace spaces with '\s':

`grex {{[-s|--spaces]}} {{space_separated_strings}}`

- Add {min, max} quantifier representation for repeating sub-strings:

`grex {{[-r|--repetitions]}} {{space_separated_strings}}`