diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/pcregrep.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/pcregrep.html | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/pcregrep.html b/doc/pcregrep.html index 77da7c4..7bc210c 100644 --- a/doc/pcregrep.html +++ b/doc/pcregrep.html @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ pcregrep - a grep with Perl-compatible regular expressions. </P> <LI><A NAME="SEC2" HREF="#TOC1">SYNOPSIS</A> <P> -<B>pcregrep [-Vchilnsvx] pattern [file] ...</B> +<B>pcregrep [-Vcfhilnrsvx] pattern [file] ...</B> </P> <LI><A NAME="SEC3" HREF="#TOC1">DESCRIPTION</A> <P> @@ -55,6 +55,13 @@ lines that would otherwise have been printed. If several files are given, a count is printed for each of them. </P> <P> +\fB-f<I>filename</I> +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. +</P> +<P> <B>-h</B> Suppress printing of filenames when searching multiple files. </P> @@ -73,6 +80,11 @@ once, on a separate line. Precede each line by its line number in the file. </P> <P> +<B>-r</B> +If any file is a directory, recursively scan the files it contains. Without +<B>-r</B> a directory is scanned as a normal file. +</P> +<P> <B>-s</B> Work silently, that is, display nothing except error messages. The exit status indicates whether any matches were found. @@ -101,5 +113,8 @@ for syntax errors or inacessible files (even if matches were found). <LI><A NAME="SEC7" HREF="#TOC1">AUTHOR</A> <P> Philip Hazel <ph10@cam.ac.uk> +</P> +<P> +Last updated: 15 August 2001 <BR> -Copyright (c) 1997-2000 University of Cambridge. +Copyright (c) 1997-2001 University of Cambridge. |