I hope that you are well.
Thank you for your work on this great software.
I have some feedback about the document at the following address:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/grep.html
When quoting from this document, I have removed the non-ASCII
characters. The characters that I have removed were left and right
single quotation marks.
1. In the section "3.3 The Backslash Character and Special Expressions":
\<
Match the empty string at the beginning of word.
\>
Match the empty string at the end of word.
Perhaps changing "of word" to "of a word" would be more consistent with
the language elsewhere in the document.
2. In the section "3.6 Basic vs Extended Regular Expressions":
In basic regular expressions the meta-characters ?, +, {, |, (, and )
lose their special meaning; instead use the backslashed versions \?, \+,
\{, \|, \(, and \).
Should } and \} appear in these lists?
3. In the section "4 Usage":
$ grep -n -- 'f.*\.c$' *g*.h /dev/null
The other examples do not begin with $. Perhaps remove $ for greater
consistency.
4. In the section "4 Usage", perhaps the answer to question 3 would be
better if the examples used -* in place of * to search for files that
begin with -.
Thank you.
David
