---
name: "bregex"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "bareos-tools"
version: "16.2.6-5"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/bregex"
---

# bregex(1)

Bareos's 'regex' engine

## NAME

 bregex - Bareos's 'regex' engine

## SYNOPSIS

**bregex** \[*options*\] *-f \<data-file\>*\

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **bregex** command.\
 This program can be useful for testing regex expressions to be applied against a list of filenames.

## OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.

- **-?**

  Show version and usage of program.

- **-d** *nn*

  Set debug level to *nn*.

- **-dt**

  Print timestamp in debug output

- **-f \<data-file\>**

  The data-file is a filename that contains lines of data to be matched (or not) against one or more patterns. When the program is run, it will prompt you for a regular expression pattern, then apply it one line at a time against the data in the file. Each line that matches will be printed preceded by its line number. You will then be prompted again for another pattern.

- **-n**

  Print lines that do not match

- **-l**

  Suppress lines numbers.

## SEE ALSO

**[regex(7)](/regex/7.md)**\

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Bruno Friedmann \<bruno@ioda-net.ch\>.