bug#34078: closed (typo in gnu grep's manual ?)

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regarding typo in gnu grep's manual ?
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> typo in gnu grep's manual ?
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> Mon, 14 Jan 2019 19:24:37 +0100
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> Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.4.0
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> I have gnu grep v3.3 as packaged by Homebrew
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> When I type man grep, the two sentences in the DESCRIPTION paragraph reads
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>        grep searches for PATTERNS in each FILE.  PATTERNS is one or
> patterns separated by newline characters, and grep prints each line that
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> Obviously, the second sentence should read "PATTERNS is one or several
> patterns" but the word 'several' is missing.
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> Looking at the source tree in
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/ I do not see a file
> share/man/man1/grep.1 like I have on my laptop, so maybe the bug is with
> the brew packaging...
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> Let me profit and thank you for the great free software.
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> Best,
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> --Philippe
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Thanks for reporting that typo in the grep manual. I installed the attached
patch to fix it.

0001-doc-fix-missing-more-in-man-page.txt
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