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diff --git a/doc/pcregrep.1 b/doc/pcregrep.1 index 41b9051..5d3151e 100644 --- a/doc/pcregrep.1 +++ b/doc/pcregrep.1 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ .SH NAME pcregrep - a grep with Perl-compatible regular expressions. .SH SYNOPSIS -.B pcregrep [-Vchilnsvx] pattern [file] ... +.B pcregrep [-Vcfhilnrsvx] pattern [file] ... .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ Do not print individual lines; instead just print a count of the number of lines that would otherwise have been printed. If several files are given, a count is printed for each of them. .TP +\fB-f\fIfilename\fR +Read patterns from the file, one per line, and match all patterns against each +line. There is a maximum of 100 patterns. Trailing white space is removed, and +blank lines are ignored. An empty file contains no patterns and therefore +matches nothing. +.TP \fB-h\fR Suppress printing of filenames when searching multiple files. .TP @@ -46,6 +52,10 @@ once, on a separate line. \fB-n\fR Precede each line by its line number in the file. .TP +\fB-r\fR +If any file is a directory, recursively scan the files it contains. Without +\fB-r\fR a directory is scanned as a normal file. +.TP \fB-s\fR Work silently, that is, display nothing except error messages. The exit status indicates whether any matches were found. @@ -72,5 +82,7 @@ for syntax errors or inacessible files (even if matches were found). .SH AUTHOR Philip Hazel <ph10@cam.ac.uk> + +Last updated: 15 August 2001 .br -Copyright (c) 1997-2000 University of Cambridge. +Copyright (c) 1997-2001 University of Cambridge. |