[sf-perl] grep -P

[Fred Moyer]

Here's a better link to ack - http://betterthangrep.com/

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Fred Moyer <fred at redhotpenguin.com> wrote:
> 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
>