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Date: | Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:29:18 -0500 |
From: | Ken Jackson <cygwin AT jackson DOT io> |
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Subject: | Re: Wrong message 'Pattern not found' |
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> when I call 'man grep' in Cygwin 1.7.1 and try to search the pattern > -P, which is really available, with '/-P', the wrong message 'Pattern > not found (press RETURN)' appeared. > This behaviour only occurs with Cygwin and only on a certain computer. > It works well with Cygwin on another computer. > > What may be the reason for this invalid message and how to resolve > that problem? I just tried this under Linux and was surprised that it works as you say it should. For years I've always automatically backslashed a leading hyphen when searching in man because I had to. It seems to have changed. I wonder how long ago. That must have been an upstream change. -Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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