Man page of QSRE
Author: Pascal Buchbinder
Keywords: Quality of Service, QoS, Apache Web Server, Web application security, WAF, Open Source Software, Security, Proxy

# QSRE

Section: qsre man page (1)
Updated: February 2026
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## NAME

qsre matches a regular expression against test strings.

## SYNOPSIS

qsre <string>|<path> <pcre>|<path>

## DESCRIPTION

Regular expression test tool. The provided regular expression (pcre, caseless matching, "." matches anything incl. newline) is appplied against the provided test strings to verify if the pattern matches.

## OPTIONS

<string>|<path>
  The first argument either defines a single test string of a path to a file containing either multiple test strings or a test pattern with newline characters (text).
<pcre>|<path>
  The second argument either defines a regular expression or a path to a file containing the expression.

## SEE ALSO

qsgeo(1), qslog(1), qsrespeed(1)

## AUTHOR

Pascal Buchbinder, http://mod-qos.sourceforge.net/

## Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR