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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2022-06-04 10:26:35 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2022-06-04 10:27:50 -0700 |
| commit | 739892e8d4461a8246fa4c6a0ece18a14ce1e51b (patch) | |
| tree | 661d87c242fbc0235f341745ec3a3b86b80d45b0 /doc | |
| parent | 3b66aaf50aaf5f68919adcdc90657d82921eb3d9 (diff) | |
| download | grep-739892e8d4461a8246fa4c6a0ece18a14ce1e51b.tar.gz | |
doc: document \] and \}
* doc/grep.texi (Special Backslash Expressions)
(Problematic Expressions): Document that grep supports
\] and \} as extensions to POSIX.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/grep.texi | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/grep.texi b/doc/grep.texi index c34a1aed..9f2f225a 100644 --- a/doc/grep.texi +++ b/doc/grep.texi @@ -1487,6 +1487,12 @@ Match whitespace, it is a synonym for @samp{[[:space:]]}. @item \S Match non-whitespace, it is a synonym for @samp{[^[:space:]]}. +@item \] +Match @samp{]}. + +@item \@} +Match @samp{@}}. + @end table For example, @samp{\brat\b} matches the separate word @samp{rat}, @@ -1641,7 +1647,7 @@ portable scripts should avoid them: @itemize @bullet @item -Special backslash expressions like @samp{\<} and @samp{\b}. +Special backslash expressions like @samp{\b}, @samp{\<}, and @samp{\]}. @xref{Special Backslash Expressions}. @item |