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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/awk')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/awk/awk.1 | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/awk/awk.1 b/usr.bin/awk/awk.1 index 3833e25470c..a4c0470e714 100644 --- a/usr.bin/awk/awk.1 +++ b/usr.bin/awk/awk.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: awk.1,v 1.21 2004/04/19 18:29:17 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: awk.1,v 1.22 2004/10/04 21:40:53 jmc Exp $ .\" EX/EE is a Bd .\" .\" Copyright (C) Lucent Technologies 1997 @@ -314,8 +314,12 @@ Patterns are arbitrary Boolean combinations .Ic "\&! || &&" ) of regular expressions and relational expressions. -Regular expressions are as in -.Xr egrep 1 . +.Nm +supports extended regular expressions +.Pq EREs . +See +.Xr re_format 7 +for more information on regular expressions. Isolated regular expressions in a pattern apply to the entire line. Regular expressions may also occur in @@ -718,11 +722,11 @@ Print an error message to standard error: { print "error!" > "/dev/stderr" } .Ed .Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr egrep 1 , .Xr lex 1 , .Xr printf 1 , .Xr sed 1 , -.Xr printf 3 +.Xr printf 3 , +.Xr re_format 7 .Pp "Awk \(em A Pattern Scanning and Processing Language", .Pa /usr/share/doc/usd/16.awk/ . |