---
name: "bregex"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "bacula-director"
version: "15.0.3-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/bregex/8"
---

# bregex(8)

Bacula's 'regex' engine

## NAME

 bregex - Bacula'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\>. This man page document is released under the BSD 2-Clause license.