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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-03-13 07:58:45 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-03-13 07:58:45 +0000
commitd86b014ebb9550a33e0f9b90bb5d42b6bd207777 (patch)
treeff5932bee53626fee959e9b9f2748bfb554483c2 /src
parenteddf022d340feb0cc992ba3aae7eab10cf43ff82 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-d86b014ebb9550a33e0f9b90bb5d42b6bd207777.tar.xz
(usage): Specify that nl uses _basic_ regular expressions.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/nl.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/nl.c b/src/nl.c
index cc4865ef4..648e36e0a 100644
--- a/src/nl.c
+++ b/src/nl.c
@@ -215,7 +215,8 @@ second character implies :. Type \\\\ for \\. STYLE is one of:\n\
a number all lines\n\
t number only nonempty lines\n\
n number no lines\n\
- pREGEXP number only lines that contain a match for REGEXP\n\
+ pBRE number only lines that contain a match for the basic regular\n\
+ expression, BRE\n\
\n\
FORMAT is one of:\n\
\n\