In reply to Steve Hollingsworth's comment: "The idea advanced in this thread that the documentation be changed is a terrible one."
I disagree with you, this bug was open over a year ago and the option -P hasn't appeared, yet the option is documented as being available. I would really love to have the option -P in grep, but I understand that adding the option -P seems very hard, we are still waiting after one year, the only reasonable solution is that the option is removed from the documentation. I can live with a tool that's lacking some options, in fact if you use different kinds of Linux/UNIX systems you will get used to check the man pages of every command as soon as you want to run a command with some esoteric arguments. What I expect is that the documentation of a tool will list the options available. If grep can't have the option -P then it should at least be removed from the documentation. -- grep -P is not supported https://launchpad.net/bugs/15051 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
