Mac admins have a lot of existing tools that support regex like BBEdit, Jamf Pro and most any command line shell. And Microsoft is updating both suites every month. The problem is neither “2016” nor “2019” are anywhere in the titles of the applications nor in their their version numbers. Maybe you need to identify all your Macs running Microsoft Office 2016 so you can upgrade them to Office 2019. Regex to the rescue! Here you go: MacBookPro(9|\d),\d
Do you really want to create a report listing each one? What if Apple updates their list? Which ones are macOS Catalina compatible? Apple’s website lists 23 compatible and 17 non-compatible model identifiers. Maybe your inventory system collects the model identifiers of all your MacBook Pros. Regex is a handy way to identify “something” when you don’t necessarily know what that “something” is.
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Let’s look at uses for regexes, the basics of how to create them and where we can use them.ĭescription: Regex (short for regular expression), like chess, is easy to learn but can take a lifetime to master. It’s a handy way to identify “something” when you don’t necessarily know what that “something” is (think of wildcards). Excerpt: Regex, like chess, is easy to learn but can take a lifetime to master.
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