77 lines
2.5 KiB
Groff
77 lines
2.5 KiB
Groff
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.TH PCREGREP 1
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.SH NAME
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pcregrep - a grep with Perl-compatible regular expressions.
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B pcregrep [-Vchilnsvx] pattern [file] ...
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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\fBpcregrep\fR searches files for character patterns, in the same way as other
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grep commands do, but it uses the PCRE regular expression library to support
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patterns that are compatible with the regular expressions of Perl 5. See
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\fBpcre(3)\fR for a full description of syntax and semantics.
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If no files are specified, \fBpcregrep\fR reads the standard input. By default,
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each line that matches the pattern is copied to the standard output, and if
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there is more than one file, the file name is printed before each line of
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output. However, there are options that can change how \fBpcregrep\fR behaves.
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Lines are limited to BUFSIZ characters. BUFSIZ is defined in \fB<stdio.h>\fR.
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The newline character is removed from the end of each line before it is matched
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against the pattern.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP 10
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\fB-V\fR
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Write the version number of the PCRE library being used to the standard error
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stream.
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.TP
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\fB-c\fR
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Do not print individual lines; instead just print a count of the number of
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lines that would otherwise have been printed. If several files are given, a
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count is printed for each of them.
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.TP
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\fB-h\fR
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Suppress printing of filenames when searching multiple files.
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.TP
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\fB-i\fR
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Ignore upper/lower case distinctions during comparisons.
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.TP
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\fB-l\fR
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Instead of printing lines from the files, just print the names of the files
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containing lines that would have been printed. Each file name is printed
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once, on a separate line.
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.TP
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\fB-n\fR
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Precede each line by its line number in the file.
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.TP
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\fB-s\fR
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Work silently, that is, display nothing except error messages.
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The exit status indicates whether any matches were found.
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.TP
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\fB-v\fR
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Invert the sense of the match, so that lines which do \fInot\fR match the
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pattern are now the ones that are found.
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.TP
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\fB-x\fR
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Force the pattern to be anchored (it must start matching at the beginning of
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the line) and in addition, require it to match the entire line. This is
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equivalent to having ^ and $ characters at the start and end of each
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alternative branch in the regular expression.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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\fBpcre(3)\fR, Perl 5 documentation
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.SH DIAGNOSTICS
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Exit status is 0 if any matches were found, 1 if no matches were found, and 2
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for syntax errors or inacessible files (even if matches were found).
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.SH AUTHOR
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Philip Hazel <ph10@cam.ac.uk>
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.br
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Copyright (c) 1997-2000 University of Cambridge.
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