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From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de>
Cc: "linux-man@vger.kernel.org" <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
	"mtk.manpages@gmail.com" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: AW: [PATCH v3] scripts/bash_aliases: Add useful functions
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 12:00:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fac0f5a0-c092-6c18-d484-cf1469b9dfd7@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6c936f8ac58747bc98a5c7dfe04b6405@bfs.de>

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


-- 
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-16 11:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-15 13:15 [PATCH] scripts/bash_aliases: Add useful functions Alejandro Colomar
2021-02-15 13:36 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-02-15 20:31 ` Alejandro Colomar
2021-02-15 20:32 ` [PATCH v3] " Alejandro Colomar
2021-02-16 10:54   ` AW: " Walter Harms
2021-02-16 11:00     ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) [this message]
2021-02-18 18:47 ` [PATCH v4] " Alejandro Colomar
2021-02-18 19:33 ` [PATCH v5] " Alejandro Colomar
2021-02-18 21:17 ` [PATCH v6] " Alejandro Colomar
2021-02-19 14:13 ` [PATCH v7] " Alejandro Colomar
2021-02-19 14:22 ` [PATCH v8] " Alejandro Colomar
2021-02-19 14:32 ` [PATCH v9] " Alejandro Colomar
2021-02-20 14:35   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-02-20 21:45   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-02-27 15:09   ` Stefan Puiu
2021-02-27 17:16     ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-03-01 10:19       ` Stefan Puiu
2021-03-01 14:16         ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)

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