misc/99831: grep -P is unsupported (according to grep) but is
supported according to the man page.
Laust Jespersen
L at ust.dk
Thu Jul 6 07:20:16 UTC 2006
>Number: 99831
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: grep -P is unsupported (according to grep) but is supported according to the man page.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jul 06 07:20:15 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Laust Jespersen
>Release: 6.1-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD my.ipfw.dk 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Fri Jun 30 13:09:14 CEST 2006 root at my.ipfw.dk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MY i386
>Description:
grep -P is supposed be grep -P "Perl Reg. Exp."
however grep says:
grep: The -P option is not supported
>How-To-Repeat:
try grep -P perlregexp <file>
>Fix:
remove mention of -P from man page (or alternately fix grep)
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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