Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 07:16:22 GMT From: Laust Jespersen <L@ust.dk> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/99831: grep -P is unsupported (according to grep) but is supported according to the man page. Message-ID: <200607060716.k667GM4C046114@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200607060720.k667KFK4064014@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 99831 >Category: misc >Synopsis: grep -P is unsupported (according to grep) but is supported according to the man page. >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jul 06 07:20:15 GMT 2006 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Laust Jespersen >Release: 6.1-STABLE >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD my.ipfw.dk 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Fri Jun 30 13:09:14 CEST 2006 root@my.ipfw.dk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MY i386 >Description: grep -P is supposed be grep -P "Perl Reg. Exp." however grep says: grep: The -P option is not supported >How-To-Repeat: try grep -P perlregexp <file> >Fix: remove mention of -P from man page (or alternately fix grep) >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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