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diff --git a/doc/grep.in.1 b/doc/grep.in.1 index a3829660..a91b2a6f 100644 --- a/doc/grep.in.1 +++ b/doc/grep.in.1 @@ -1333,13 +1333,18 @@ The following example outputs the location and contents of any line containing \*(lqf\*(rq and ending in \*(lq.c\*(rq, within all files in the current directory whose names contain \*(lqg\*(rq and end in \*(lq.h\*(rq. -The command also searches the empty file /dev/null, -so that file names are displayed +The +.B \-n +option outputs line numbers, the +.B \-\- +argument treats expansions of \*(lq*g*.h\*(rq starting with \*(lq\-\*(rq +as file names not options, +and the empty file /dev/null causes file names to be output even if only one file name happens to be of the form \*(lq*g*.h\*(rq. .PP .in +2n .EX -$ \fBgrep\fP \-n 'f.*\e.c$' *g*.h /dev/null +$ \fBgrep\fP \-n \-\- 'f.*\e.c$' *g*.h /dev/null argmatch.h:1:/* definitions and prototypes for argmatch.c .EE .in |