Dear Friend,
At the moment I am working part time as a Unix / Linux teacher and also
as an AIX system administrator.
Privately I am using Debian / Ubuntu and I use it while in class, giving
presentations and on the fly examples of statements and so on.
In class I tell the students how grep sh
On 12/29/19 6:24 AM, Martin Simons wrote:
> It may not be the task of the grep project to provide a man page, but even
> then I
> feel there is an opportunity for improvement here
Right on both counts. I installed the attached patches to improve things a bit
in the next version of grep. Thanks fo
On 3/16/17 11:12 AM, kalle wrote:
> in the manual there is the header "matcher selection" for selecting the
> type of regular expression. Since a "matcher" is something that matches,
> the matching criteria/matching sheme/matching method shouldn't be called
> like this.
Thanks for reporting this.
2019-12-29 15:24:47 +0100, Martin Simons:
[...]
> martin@laptop:~/test$ grep 'Jantje*' school.txt
> Which delivers the desired output:
> Jantje
It also matches on Jantj? The * regexp operator matches 0 or
more of the preceding atom. So e* matches 0 or more "e"s. It's
not to confused with the "*" s
2019-12-29 10:46:10 -0800, Paul Eggert:
> On 12/29/19 6:24 AM, Martin Simons wrote:
> > It may not be the task of the grep project to provide a man page, but even
> > then I
> > feel there is an opportunity for improvement here
>
> Right on both counts. I installed the attached patches to improve
On 12/29/19 11:10 AM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> Note that that wording makes it unclear what the exit status
> should be if -o is in use.
It seems reasonably clear that a line would be selected if any part of it is
selected. Anyway, that text is exactly the same as before, so rewordsmithing it
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