Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 23:03:41 +0000 (UTC) From: Devin Teske <dteske@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r340091 - head/contrib/one-true-awk Message-ID: <201811022303.wA2N3fg0022909@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: dteske Date: Fri Nov 2 23:03:40 2018 New Revision: 340091 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/340091 Log: Update awk(1) manual to state an exception to egrep(1)-like RE syntax Reviewed by: imp, jmg MFC after: 3 days Sponsored by: Smule, Inc. Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17739 Modified: head/contrib/one-true-awk/awk.1 Modified: head/contrib/one-true-awk/awk.1 ============================================================================== --- head/contrib/one-true-awk/awk.1 Fri Nov 2 22:50:13 2018 (r340090) +++ head/contrib/one-true-awk/awk.1 Fri Nov 2 23:03:40 2018 (r340091) @@ -352,9 +352,13 @@ Patterns are arbitrary Boolean combinations of regular expressions and relational expressions. Regular expressions are as in -.IR egrep ; -see -.IR grep (1). +.IR egrep (1) +except numeric quantifiers are not supported beyond the basic +.B + +and +.B ? +for quantities \&\f(CW"0 or 1"\fP and \&\f(CW"1 or more"\fP +respectively. Isolated regular expressions in a pattern apply to the entire line. Regular expressions may also occur in
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