Re: Man page Entry

[Benno Schulenberg]

Tony Abou-Assaleh wrote:
> Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> >>>     -e PATTERN, --regexp=PATTERN
> >>>               Use PATTERN as the pattern.  This can be used
> >>>               to specify multiple patterns, or to protect a
> >>>               pattern beginning with a hyphen (-).
>
> Benno: could you submit a patch with the above?


Index: doc/grep.1
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RCS file: /sources/grep/grep/doc/grep.1,v
retrieving revision 1.38
diff -u -r1.38 grep.1
--- doc/grep.1  18 Aug 2006 22:00:31 -0000      1.38
+++ doc/grep.1  6 Feb 2008 10:52:44 -0000
@@ -125,7 +125,8 @@
 Use
 .I PATTERN
 as the pattern.
-This is useful to protect patterns beginning with hyphen-minus
+This can be used to specify multiple search patterns,
+or to protect a pattern beginning with a hyphen
 .RB ( \- ).
 .RB ( \-e
 is specified by \s-1POSIX\s0.)
Index: doc/grep.texi
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RCS file: /sources/grep/grep/doc/grep.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.62
diff -u -r1.62 grep.texi
--- doc/grep.texi       18 Aug 2006 22:00:31 -0000      1.62
+++ doc/grep.texi       6 Feb 2008 10:52:45 -0000
@@ -211,8 +211,9 @@
 @opindex -e
 @opindex address@hidden
 @cindex pattern list
-Use @var{pattern} as the pattern;
-useful to protect patterns beginning with a @samp{-}.
+Use @var{pattern} as the pattern.
+This can be used to specify multiple search patterns,
+or to protect a pattern beginning with a @samp{-}.
 (@samp{-e} is specified by @sc{posix}.)

 @item -f @var{file}


Tiny change, not worth a changelog entry, in my opinion.

Cheers,

Benno