2 Jul 2026, 05:21 by [email protected]: > In fact, they're standardized by POSIX and are available in awk, sed, > and most other programs that handle regular expressions. It's a > problem if they're not mentioned in that O'Reilly book. > "Every book and website you read on regular expressions is wrong" is a bit of a reverse onus argument, but if that's the rule, I may as well learn to follow it.
Thank you, too, for your book plug. To be perfectly honest, I've avoided sed and awk because I don't want to learn a different regex syntax when it's just faster for me to plug everything into Python instead. I may as well learn Fortran, in that case. I don't think anything I say or do will change anyone's minds. May as well close this pull request. I'm sorry for wasting your time and bandwidth. Might I suggest changing https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/ from: bug-grep is used to discuss most aspects of Grep, including development and enhancement requests, as well as bug reports. tobug-grep is used to discuss Grep and critical bugs only. We no longer accept feature requests. Please fork the project instead. That'll stop plebs like me from submitting frivolous questions or requests.
