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Date:      Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:02:14 +0100
From:      Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
To:        Dennis Koegel <amf@hobbit.neveragain.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pcre in base system
Message-ID:  <20050218080214.GQ82324@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050218003534.GA31807@neveragain.de>
References:  <72c3a957050217031230598f63@mail.gmail.com> <86zmy3qmm2.wl%sf@FreeBSD.org> <72c3a957050217065223729f83@mail.gmail.com> <20050217185422.GJ57256@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20050218003534.GA31807@neveragain.de>

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



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