On Fri, 5 Aug 2011, jari wrote: > In the year of 2011, the regexps people understand/expect to use are > those of class of "egrep" as found in many of the programming > languages.
No. In the year 2011 there are *still* basic regular expressions and extended regular expressions. Time does not make basic regular expressions to disappear, and diff is not a "programming language" as such. If you ask the authors they will tell you that the info manual now reads like this: To ignore insertions and deletions of lines that match a `grep'-style regular expression, use the `--ignore-matching-lines=REGEXP' (`-I REGEXP') option. so I will consider this "documented enough" in diffutils 3.1. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
