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| author | Tony Abou-Assaleh <taa@acm.org> | 2008-02-07 03:43:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Tony Abou-Assaleh <taa@acm.org> | 2008-02-07 03:43:27 +0000 |
| commit | 7b8d25d289533e1b9e58bf03aed259af3327d154 (patch) | |
| tree | 6d0f020f1acc45831bee21408c66a96ae8402678 /doc/grep.texi | |
| parent | ad0fb33780c487dac22cea52f5d592d80cae222f (diff) | |
| download | grep-7b8d25d289533e1b9e58bf03aed259af3327d154.tar.gz | |
* tests/foad1.h: Comment out cases that are known to fail. These
should be uncommented after the 2.5.4 release.
* tests/yesno.sh: Likewise.
* doc/grep.1: Update description of -e PATTERN; from Benno Schulenberg
* doc/grep.texi: Likewise.
* tests/foad1.h: Comment out cases that are known to fail. These
* tests/yesno.sh: Likewise.
* doc/grep.1: Update description of -e PATTERN; from Benno Schulenberg
* doc/grep.texi: Likewise.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/grep.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/grep.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/grep.texi b/doc/grep.texi index 13dbfb7d..d5484a3a 100644 --- a/doc/grep.texi +++ b/doc/grep.texi @@ -211,8 +211,9 @@ This version number should be included in all bug reports. @opindex -e @opindex --regexp=@var{pattern} @cindex pattern list -Use @var{pattern} as the pattern; -useful to protect patterns beginning with a @samp{-}. +Use @var{pattern} as the pattern. +This can be used to specify multiple search patterns, +or to protect a pattern beginning with a @samp{-}. (@samp{-e} is specified by @sc{posix}.) @item -f @var{file} |