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From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
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> Replacing the standard behaviour with PCREs definitely is a bad idea.
> 
> But, well, it would actually be nice if PCREs would be available as an
> *option*. Analogue to grep, grep -E / sed, sed -E, ... one might have
> grep -P (and not confuse it with pgrep ;-), sed -P and so on.

Note that the pcre port is shipped with the pcregrep command.  There
is unfortunately no pcresed or pcreawk command.

Regards,
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Jeremie Le Hen
jeremie at le-hen dot org