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The man page says: |
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The pattern is a regular expression, as recognized by |
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the regular expression library supplied by your system |
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There are many regular expression libraries on my system. |
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Anyway, thank you for the (unexpected) tip: |
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man perlre |
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That says to use \b instead of the decades-old \<. |
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On 07/18/19 20:55, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 7/18/19 6:40 PM, n952162 wrote: |
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>> in less(1), how do you search for a pattern at the beginning (or ending) |
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>> of a word. |
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> Hit front slash "/" in less, and then type a perl-compatible regular |
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> expression. Specifically, try |
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> https://www.pcre.org/original/doc/html/pcrepattern.html#smallassertions |
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>> Also, where the change is documented. |
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> man less |
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