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Summary: man page should mention re_format(7)
Project: grep
Submitted by: bbyer
Submitted on: Saturday 05/20/2006 at 16:10
Category: None
Priority: 5 - Normal
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
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Open/Closed: Open
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Details:
In the discussion of the POSIX standard, grep should cite re_format(7).
--- doc/grep.1~ Sat May 20 09:07:43 2006
+++ doc/grep.1 Sat May 20 09:07:43 2006
@@ -690,6 +690,10 @@
instead of reporting a syntax error in the regular expression.
\s-1POSIX.2\s0 allows this behavior as an extension, but portable scripts
should avoid it.
+.PP
+For more information see
+.IR "re_format" (7).
+.X
.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
The behavior of
.B grep
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