On 7/19/19 11:28 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 7/19/19 2:40 AM, n952162 wrote:
>> The man page says:
>>
>> The pattern is a regular expression, as recognized by
>> the regular expression library supplied by your system
>>
>> There are many regular expression libraries on my sy
On 7/19/19 2:40 AM, n952162 wrote:
> The man page says:
>
> The pattern is a regular expression, as recognized by
> the regular expression library supplied by your system
>
> There are many regular expression libraries on my system.
>
You caught me, I did
$ ldd /usr/bin/le
The man page says:
The pattern is a regular expression, as recognized by
the regular expression library supplied by your system
There are many regular expression libraries on my system.
Anyway, thank you for the (unexpected) tip:
man perlre
That says to use \b instead of th
On 7/18/19 6:40 PM, n952162 wrote:
> in less(1), how do you search for a pattern at the beginning (or ending)
> of a word.
>
Hit front slash "/" in less, and then type a perl-compatible regular
expression. Specifically, try
https://www.pcre.org/original/doc/html/pcrepattern.html#smallassertions
in less(1), how do you search for a pattern at the beginning (or ending)
of a word.
Elsewhere, you prepend (or append) the pattern with \< (\>) but that's
not working for me with gentoo.
Also, where the change is documented.
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