CVSROOT: /webcvs/grep Module name: grep Changes by: Jim Meyering <meyering> 16/04/22 05:25:56
Index: html_node/Matching-Control.html =================================================================== RCS file: /webcvs/grep/grep/manual/html_node/Matching-Control.html,v retrieving revision 1.23 retrieving revision 1.24 diff -u -b -r1.23 -r1.24 --- html_node/Matching-Control.html 11 Mar 2016 06:09:09 -0000 1.23 +++ html_node/Matching-Control.html 22 Apr 2016 05:25:56 -0000 1.24 @@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.0, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> -<title>GNU Grep 2.24: Matching Control</title> +<title>GNU Grep 2.25: Matching Control</title> -<meta name="description" content="GNU Grep 2.24: Matching Control"> -<meta name="keywords" content="GNU Grep 2.24: Matching Control"> +<meta name="description" content="GNU Grep 2.25: Matching Control"> +<meta name="keywords" content="GNU Grep 2.25: Matching Control"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> @@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ <a name="index-_002d_002dregexp_003dpattern"></a> <a name="index-pattern-list"></a> <p>Use <var>pattern</var> as the pattern. -This can be used to specify multiple search patterns, -or to protect a pattern beginning with a ‘<samp>-</samp>’. +If this option is used multiple times or is combined with the +<samp>-f</samp> (<samp>--file</samp>) option, search for all patterns given. (<samp>-e</samp> is specified by POSIX.) </p> </dd> @@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ <a name="index-_002d_002dfile"></a> <a name="index-pattern-from-file"></a> <p>Obtain patterns from <var>file</var>, one per line. +If this option is used multiple times or is combined with the +<samp>-e</samp> (<samp>--regexp</samp>) option, search for all patterns given. The empty file contains zero patterns, and therefore matches nothing. (<samp>-f</samp> is specified by POSIX.) </p>
