Re: AW: [PATCH v3] scripts/bash_aliases: Add useful functions

Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-02-16T11:04:01Z

On 2/16/21 11:54 AM, Walter Harms wrote:
> My version of grep (V3) has a -P option and claims to support pcre.
> Maybe that is a replacement for pcregrep ?
>
> Would reduce the dependencies by one.
>
> re,
> wh

Hi Walter,

There's a problem with grep: it doesn't support the '-M' option, which
allows for multi-line matches. So pcregrep is needed.

Thanks,

Alex

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Alejandro Colomar
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