On 1/14/19 12:24 PM, phs wrote: > I have gnu grep v3.3 as packaged by Homebrew > > When I type man grep, the two sentences in the DESCRIPTION paragraph reads > > grep searches for PATTERNS in each FILE. PATTERNS is one or > patterns separated by newline characters, and grep prints each line that > matches a pattern. > > Obviously, the second sentence should read "PATTERNS is one or several > patterns" but the word 'several' is missing.
Thanks for the report. I'd prefer "more" over "several" in this context. > > Looking at the source tree in > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/ I do not see a file > share/man/man1/grep.1 like I have on my laptop, so maybe the bug is with > the brew packaging... Not a packaging bug, but because the man page is generated from 'grep --help' output combined with a template; running: git grep 'is one or' quickly locates the culprit file of doc/grep.in.1. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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