Re: bin/39122 (/usr/bin/grep does not recognize -P flag)

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/39122; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/39122 (/usr/bin/grep does not recognize -P flag)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:04:32 +0200

 On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Mike Cheponis wrote:
 >  Incidentally, I had a friend try this on his linux system, and the -P
 >  switch worked.
 
 Yes, it probably would work on linux.  NetBSD does not have the
 pcre regular expression library (except in pkgsrc).