[sf-perl] grep -P

[Fred Moyer]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:31 PM, David Alban <extasia at extasia.org> wrote:
> eh...    mah...    gawd...  !
>
> from the grep man page on a red hat enterprise linux machine:
>
>       -P, --perl-regexp
>              Interpret PATTERN as a Perl regular expression.
>
> wonder how long that's been there without me knowing about it.

Andy Lester is very recently unsubscribed from this list, but he would
tell you to use App::Ack.  And after using it for quite a while now, I
highly recommend it.

http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/ack-1.92/Ack.pm