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Re: bin/39122 (/usr/bin/grep does not recognize -P flag)
The following reply was made to PR bin/39122; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc:
Subject: Re: bin/39122 (/usr/bin/grep does not recognize -P flag)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 18:08:23 -0400
While the man page was altered in this PR's associated commit, the
usage() function in grep.c was not correspondingly changed, so users
like myself can still get tripped up when grep --help tells us that
-P, --perl-regexp PATTERN is a Perl regular expression
is an option, and it's not.
Dave
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