Package: grep Version: 2.5.1.ds2-4 Severity: minor Tags: patch -F and -x are useful, but it would be very helpful if there were some more discussion about their behaviour. Please consider this patch.
--- - 2007-02-15 20:23:33.497183690 -0500 +++ /tmp/grep.1 2007-02-15 20:23:08.000000000 -0500 @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ .BR \-F ", " \-\^\-fixed-strings Interpret .I PATTERN -as a list of fixed strings, separated by newlines, +as a list of fixed strings (rather than regular expressions), separated by newlines, any of which is to be matched. .TP .BI \-f " FILE" "\fR,\fP \-\^\-file=" FILE @@ -408,6 +408,7 @@ .TP .BR \-x ", " \-\^\-line-regexp Select only those matches that exactly match the whole line. +This option has the same effect as anchoring the expression with ^ and $. .TP .B \-y Obsolete synonym for @@ -772,7 +773,7 @@ when .B POSIXLY_CORRECT is not set. -.SH DIAGNOSTICS +.SH "EXIT STATUS" .PP Normally, exit status is 0 if selected lines are found and 1 otherwise. But the exit status is 2 if an error occurred, unless the -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
