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| author | Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de> | 2020-12-23 08:41:22 -0800 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com> | 2020-12-23 10:46:29 -0800 |
| commit | 91ce9cdad384cb6d774e9884707c7f00946d909d (patch) | |
| tree | 9b915334c8555a565f01248ecaeeb2cdd3e13002 /doc | |
| parent | 192e59903c7d313bb47de3d5c15b3dc634e98c5f (diff) | |
| download | grep-91ce9cdad384cb6d774e9884707c7f00946d909d.tar.gz | |
doc: adjust man page syntax
* doc/grep.in.1: Mark some manual names with B<...>.
Mark PATTERNS with I<...>.
Drop final period in SEE ALSO.
With suggestions from of several members of the manpage-l10n
translation community. This resolves https://bugs.gnu.org/45353
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/grep.in.1 | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/grep.in.1 b/doc/grep.in.1 index c56c4040..3bd31310 100644 --- a/doc/grep.in.1 +++ b/doc/grep.in.1 @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ as basic regular expressions (BREs, see below). This is the default. .TP .BR \-P ", " \-\^\-perl\-regexp -Interpret PATTERNS as Perl-compatible regular expressions (PCREs). +Interpret I<PATTERNS> as Perl-compatible regular expressions (PCREs). This option is experimental when combined with the .B \-z .RB ( \-\^\-null\-data ) @@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ options match, a file is included unless the first such option is .BR \-r ", " \-\^\-recursive Read all files under each directory, recursively, following symbolic links only if they are on the command line. -Note that if no file operand is given, grep searches the working directory. +Note that if no file operand is given, B<grep> searches the working directory. This is equivalent to the .B "\-d recurse" option. @@ -761,8 +761,8 @@ In other implementations, basic regular expressions are less powerful. The following description applies to extended regular expressions; differences for basic regular expressions are summarized afterwards. Perl-compatible regular expressions give additional functionality, and are -documented in pcresyntax(3) and pcrepattern(3), but work only if -PCRE is available in the system. +documented in B<pcresyntax>(3) and B<pcrepattern>(3), but work only if +PCRE support is enabled. .PP The fundamental building blocks are the regular expressions that match a single character. @@ -1370,7 +1370,7 @@ from the globbing syntax that the shell uses to match file names. .BR pcrepattern (3), .BR terminfo (5), .BR glob (7), -.BR regex (7). +.BR regex (7) .SS "Full Documentation" A .UR https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/ |