visualize your regular expression easily on your browser

regulex-query.sh

#!/bin/sh
# https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/152025/457201

# 1 . Usage copy the regular expression which is hard to understand
# 2. Run `sh regulex.query.sh`


mk_regulex_query() {
    url_encode() {
        # http://stackoverflow.com/a/298258/3541063
        perl -MURI::Escape -e 'print uri_escape($ARGV[0]);' "$1"
    }
    echo "https://jex.im/regulex/#!flags=&re=`url_encode "$1"`"
}

SEARCH_TEXT=`/usr/bin/xsel --clipboard`
xdg-open `mk_regulex_query "$SEARCH_TEXT"`