Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - grep: The -P option is not supported
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:14:09
Message-Id: 200610252104.57241.bo.andresen@zlin.dk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] OT - grep: The -P option is not supported by Michael Sullivan
1 On Wednesday 25 October 2006 20:51, Michael Sullivan wrote:
2 [SNIP]
3 > cat * | grep -Po "\[\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+\]"
4
5 ;)
6
7 http://www.ruhr.de/home/smallo/award.html
8
9 > It worked fine right up until this afternoon. Now I get this:
10 >
11 > michael@bullet ~/spam $ cat * | grep -Po "\[\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+\]"
12 > grep: The -P option is not supported
13 > michael@bullet ~/spam $
14 [SNIP]
15
16 My guess would be that you need to enable a pcre use flag for sys-apps/grep.
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18 --
19 Bo Andresen