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author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-03-10 06:50:59 +0000 |
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committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-03-10 06:50:59 +0000 |
commit | df1dd184d781eb88aad0eaef65e3164e09208d20 (patch) | |
tree | 5bb9056038991288377e1bcd4647600ad380d3f5 /doc/coreutils.texi | |
parent | 2bff52d99f37847ef48f581713bca65c2bd35507 (diff) | |
download | coreutils-df1dd184d781eb88aad0eaef65e3164e09208d20.tar.xz |
(nl invocation): Specify that these are _basic_
regular expressions (BRE), and add a link to grep's documentation.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/coreutils.texi')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 6e074f5fa..eebcb0088 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -1331,8 +1331,10 @@ number all lines, number only nonempty lines (default for body), @item n do not number lines (default for header and footer), -@item p@var{regexp} -number only lines that contain a match for @var{regexp}. +@item p@var{bre} +number only lines that contain a match for the basic regular +expression @var{bre}. +@xref{Regular Expressions, , Regular Expressions, grep, The GNU Grep Manual}. @end table @item -d @var{cd} |