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bug#48948: grep documentation feedback


From: David Apps
Subject: bug#48948: grep documentation feedback
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 20:42:03 +0100
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I hope that you are well.

Thank you for your work on this great software.

I have some feedback about the document at the following address:

http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/grep.html

When quoting from this document, I have removed the non-ASCII characters. The characters that I have removed were left and right single quotation marks.

1. In the section "3.3 The Backslash Character and Special Expressions":

\<
Match the empty string at the beginning of word.
\>
Match the empty string at the end of word.

Perhaps changing "of word" to "of a word" would be more consistent with the language elsewhere in the document.

2. In the section "3.6 Basic vs Extended Regular Expressions":

In basic regular expressions the meta-characters ?, +, {, |, (, and ) lose their special meaning; instead use the backslashed versions \?, \+, \{, \|, \(, and \).

Should } and \} appear in these lists?

3. In the section "4 Usage":

$ grep -n -- 'f.*\.c$' *g*.h /dev/null

The other examples do not begin with $. Perhaps remove $ for greater consistency.

4. In the section "4 Usage", perhaps the answer to question 3 would be better if the examples used -* in place of * to search for files that begin with -.

Thank you.

David





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