From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jul 26 04:19:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA22781 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 04:19:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sam.networx.ie (dublin-ts19-164.indigo.ie [194.125.134.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA22776 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 04:19:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mip1.networx.ie (mip1.networx.ie [194.9.12.1]) by sam.networx.ie (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA14095 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 11:39:29 +0100 X-Organisation: I.T. NetworX Ltd X-Business: Network Consultancy and Training X-Address: 67 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland X-Voice: +353-1-676-8866 X-Fax: +353-1-676-8868 Received: from mike.networx.ie by mip1.networx.ie Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 11:31:01 BST From: Michael Ryan Reply-To: mike@NetworX.ie Subject: grep manpage inaccurate To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Message-Id: Priority: Normal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ---