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- b command (sed)
: 6.4.1. Branching
- \B escape sequence
: 11.2.3.4. Extended regular expressions
- backreferences
: (see numbered replacement strings)
- backslash (\)
    
  - 7.6. Expressions
  
- (see also escape sequences, awk)
  
- \<, \> escape sequences
  
   
    - 3.2.11. What's the Word? Part II
    
- 11.2.3.4. Extended regular expressions
  
  
  - \`, \' escape sequences
: 11.2.3.4. Extended regular expressions
  
- character classes and
: 3.2.4. Character Classes
  
- as metacharacter
  
   
    - 3.2. A Line-Up of Characters
    
- 3.2.1. The Ubiquitous Backslash
  
  
  - in replacement text
  
 
    - 5.3. Substitution
    
- 5.3.1. Replacement Metacharacters
  
  
- bang (!)
: (see exclamation point)
- basic regular expressions (BREs)
: 3.2.4.3. POSIX character class additions
- BEGIN pattern
: 7.2. Hello, World
   
  - command-line parameters and
: 7.10. Passing Parameters Into a Script
 
- BEGIN procedure
: 11.1.6. Control Flow
- BEGINFILE procedure (tawk)
: 11.3.2.1. Tawk language extensions
- beginning
   
  - of line
: (see ^ (circumflex))
  
- of word
: (see \<, \> escape sequences)
  
- Bell Labs awk
: 11.2.2. Bell Labs awk
- BITFTP
: BITFTP
- blocks of text
: 6.3.3. Building Blocks of Text
- Boolean operators, awk
: 7.8. Relational and Boolean Operators
    
  - variables as Boolean patterns
: 11.1.4. Variables as Boolean Patterns
 
- braces {}
: A.2.1. Pattern Addressing
 
  - \{\} metacharacters
  
 
    - 3.2. A Line-Up of Characters
    
- 3.2.8. A Span of Characters
  
  
  - in awk
  
 
    - 2.1. Awk, by Sed and Grep, out of Ed
    
- 2.4.1. Running awk
    
- 8.1. Conditional Statements
  
   
  - grouping sed commands in
  
 
    - 4.2.1. Grouping Commands
    
- 5.1. About the Syntax of sed Commands
  
  
- bracket expressions
: 3.2.4. Character Classes
- brackets []
  
  - [::] metacharacters
: 3.2.4.3. POSIX character class additions
  
- [..] metacharacters
: 3.2.4.3. POSIX character class additions
  
- [==] metacharacters
: 3.2.4.3. POSIX character class additions
  
- as metacharacters
  
    
    - 3.2. A Line-Up of Characters
    
- 3.2.4. Character Classes
  
  
- branch command
: (see b command (sed))
- branching
: 6.4.1. Branching
- break statement
: 8.3. Other Statements That Affect Flow Control
- breaking lines
: 11.2.3.3. Line continuation
- BREs (basic regular expressions)
: 3.2.4.3. POSIX character class additions
- buffers, flushing
: 11.2.1.3. Flushing buffered output
- built-in functions
       
  - awk
: 11.1.10. Functions
  
- gawk
: 11.2.3.9. Additional functions
  
- tawk
: 11.3.2.2. Additional built-in tawk functions
   
- built-in variables
 
  - 7.7. System Variables
  
- 11.1.11. Built-In Variables
  
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