On 9/29/11 12:06 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> As I mentioned previously, the best is to add a few examples in man >> bash. > > I would not object to that, but I can't speak for Chet.
As I said, I will add examples to the info manual and some more explanation to the man page. Regular expressions are so fundamental to Unix, though, I would expect familiarity with them as a given. > Another option would be to refer to the POSIX definition of > Extended Regular Expressions as a web site. I wish they had > better URLs, though. The URL I have for it at the moment is > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap09.html#tag_09_04 That's old (issue 6, Posix 2004). The current one is http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap09.html#tag_09 Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
