From the course: Bash Patterns and Regular Expressions
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Solution: Create a regex to find telephone numbers - Bash Tutorial
From the course: Bash Patterns and Regular Expressions
Solution: Create a regex to find telephone numbers
(pulsing digital music) - [Instructor] In this challenge we parse the contacts.csv file in the Chapter 06 directory using grep, and print out the telephone numbers on the screen. My extended regular expression handles 10-digit numbers in the format of three digits hyphen three digits hyphen followed by four more digits. So it matches numbers like 907-870-5536. It also handles the area code in parentheses. It also handles international numbers that are prefixed by a plus symbol, and lastly it handles international numbers prefixed by a plus symbol, and the area code in parentheses.
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