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comby:tldr:04004
comby: Only perform matching and print matches.
$ comby -match-only '${match_pattern}' ""
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The command comby -match-only '${match_pattern}' ""
is used to search for a specific pattern within a set of files, but it will not perform any actual replacements or modifications. Here is an explanation of each part of the command:
comby
: It is the name of the command-line tool that is being executed.-match-only
: It is a flag or option provided to thecomby
tool. This flag instructscomby
to only match the specified pattern but not perform any replacements.'${match_pattern}'
: The match pattern enclosed in single quotes is the pattern thatcomby
will search for within the files. The${match_pattern}
is a placeholder for the actual pattern, and it could be a regular expression, literal string, or a combination of both.""
: The double quotes serve as empty string placeholders. In this command, it represents the set of files or the targets thatcomby
will search within. Since""
is empty, it implies that no specific files are specified, andcomby
will search within the current directory or the standard input if available.
In summary, the command comby -match-only '${match_pattern}' ""
instructs comby
to search for the specified pattern without replacing any content and perform the search in the current directory or standard input.
This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and
never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.