^txt2regex$ is a Regular Expression "wizard", all written with bash2 builtins, that converts human sentences to RegExs. with a simple interface, you just answer to questions and build your own RegEx for a large variety of programs, like awk, ed, emacs, grep, perl, php, python, sed, tcl and vim. there are 18 supported programs now. WWW: http://txt2regex.sourceforge.net/