pi-hole_docs/docs/regex/testmode.md
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Fix regex-test return code
Signed-off-by: yubiuser <github@yubiuser.dev>
2025-10-26 19:43:38 +01:00

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Regex Test mode

In order to ease regex development, we added a regex test mode to pihole-FTL which can be invoked like

pihole-FTL regex-test doubleclick.net

(test doubleclick.net against all regexes in the gravity database), or

pihole-FTL regex-test doubleclick.net "(^|\.)double"

(test doubleclick.net against the CLI-provided regex (^|\.)double.

You do NOT need to be sudo for this, any arbitrary user should be able to run this command. The test returns 0 on match, 1 on errors and 2 on no match, hence, it may be used for scripting.