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author | Ondřej Fiala <temp.xanomes@volny.cz> | 2022-01-02 07:58:49 +0100 |
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committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2022-01-02 11:14:21 -0800 |
commit | f31ae6d46de9770586c8ebf55afa39aef3a20c73 (patch) | |
tree | 7100c39b650008d16f1456de1a15455222762ef3 /doc | |
parent | f9290127f38ae0c6131f4493e06be18653f7f83f (diff) | |
download | grep-f31ae6d46de9770586c8ebf55afa39aef3a20c73.tar.gz |
bug#52958: [PATCH] doc: fix man page syntax errors
* doc/grep.in.1: Fix syntax errors.
Introduced by commit v3.6-5-g91ce9cd.
Copyright-paperwork-exempt: Yes
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/grep.in.1 | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/grep.in.1 b/doc/grep.in.1 index ed53a8f0..372b892c 100644 --- a/doc/grep.in.1 +++ b/doc/grep.in.1 @@ -214,7 +214,9 @@ as basic regular expressions (BREs, see below). This is the default. .TP .BR \-P ", " \-\^\-perl\-regexp -Interpret I<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 ) @@ -690,7 +692,9 @@ 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, B<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. @@ -756,8 +760,11 @@ 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 B<pcre2syntax>(3) and B<pcre2pattern>(3), but work only if -PCRE support is enabled. +documented in +.BR pcre2syntax (3) +and +.BR pcre2pattern (3), +but work only if PCRE support is enabled. .PP The fundamental building blocks are the regular expressions that match a single character. |