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Re: Confusing/unclear documentation of Sed back references
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: Confusing/unclear documentation of Sed back references |
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Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:20:29 -0800 |
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Bruce Korb <address@hidden> wrote:
...
>>> they can be clearer because they usually have less backslashes,
>>> but are a GNU extension and hence scripts that use them are not
>>> portable. See [Extended regular expressions].
>
>
> Can we fix the grammar too, please? i.e. "have *fewer* backslashes"
> Thank you :)
Thanks. That grammar problem appears to have been fixed already:
$ g grep usually.\*backslashes
doc/sed-in.texi:usually have fewer backslashes.
doc/sed.texi:usually have fewer backslashes.
Re: Confusing/unclear documentation of Sed back references, Peter Kehl, 2014/11/26