Borden via Bug reports for GNU grep <[email protected]> writes: > The current man page says: > > "Finally, certain named classes of characters are predefined within > bracket expressions, as follows. Their names are self explanatory, and > they are [:alnum:], [:alpha:], [:blank:], [:cntrl:], [:digit:], > [:graph:], [:lower:], [:print:], [:punct:], [:space:], [:upper:], and > [:xdigit:]." > > [...] > https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/html_node/Character-Classes-and-Bracket-Expressions.html > provides > a helpful reference to explaining the character classes. [...]
Instead of enlarging the man page, why not insert at this point a the manual URL, stating "the exact definitions are in ..."? Then all the ambiguity and confusion is removed. Dale
