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How to reverse-match a string in the Vim programming language?

I want to find the last index of any character in the [abc] set in the abcabc string but the search should start from the end of the string: " Returns the 0th index but I want the 5th. let ...
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How can I find all files in a folder that contain a match of a regular expression in the file name?

I'd like to find all of the files in my home folder on Linux (Ubuntu, in this case) that contain a match a particular regular expression. Is there a simple Unix command that I can use in order to do ...
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Emacs: query-replace, regular expression, reuse of search result

How do I combine something like query-replace with a regular expression search-and-replace that in part reuses the search result? In my case, how to transform The programmers are "sort of" ...
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How to cut the output to only gather the filename and get-parameter?

I have multiple files with multiple links that are formatted like this: <a href="http://example.com/fnord.layername.html?parameter=FOO-_-BAR-_-FNORD" class="poit"> <img ... /> ...
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How to search and replace multiple needles by one word via one expression?

Assume you have a text file: foo fnord bar bizz foo poit And now I would want to replace both "foo" and "bar" into "narf". I know I could use: sed -e 's/foo/narf/g' -e 's/bar/narf/g' fileName ...