The idea advanced in this thread that the documentation be changed is a terrible one. The current manpage is for the standard grep (aka egrep fgrep) available in every linux distro that I've worked with. And why would ubuntu ever want to distinguish itself by the things it omits that others include?
Because I have in production scripts using grep -P running on Mandriva, it complicates moving those servers to ubuntu even though I'm convinced that in the long-term ubuntu is the way to go. -- grep -P is not supported https://launchpad.net/bugs/15051 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
