Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 11:31:01 BST From: Michael Ryan <mike@NetworX.ie> To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: grep manpage inaccurate Message-ID: <ECS9607261101A@NetworX.ie>
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The following text in the grep(1) manpage is incorrect. Its
reference to "a single character" should read "an atom" where an
atom is as defined in re_format(7).
A regular expression matching a single character may be
followed by one of several repetition operators:
? The preceding item is optional and matched at most
once.
* The preceding item will be matched zero or more
times.
+ The preceding item will be matched one or more
times.
{n} The preceding item is matched exactly n times.
{n,} The preceding item is matched n or more times.
{,m} The preceding item is optional and is matched at
most m times.
{n,m} The preceding item is matched at least n times, but
not more than m times.
Mike
<mike@NetworX.ie>
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