Other popular distributions do have grep -P available - for example: RHEL 4 and SLES 9. RHEL places PCRE in /lib while SLES appears to link PCRE statically.
I'd argue that Ubuntu, either on the server or desktop, targets systems with enough resources to have libpcre in /lib. If there's room for BDB, Perl and Python, surely there's room for libpcre. This takes several hundred KiB which, on a modern system, is usually acceptable. -- grep -P is not supported https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/15051 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
