Folkert van Heusden said:
> Hi,
>
> A user of a program of mine (http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/) tries
> to use plan9 regexps under linux and doesn't succeed.
> Am I right that plan9 regular expressions are not compatible with the
> ones of "regular" unix?
They are different. I am not very sure what you mean by "regular"
UNIX regexp, as far as I now in Linux each command seems to use
different sets of regexps.
As for plan9, you can read regexp(6) at:
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/6/regexp
Sam also support structural regexps:
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/uriel/mirror/se.pdf
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Alberto Cortés
