From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 79322 invoked by alias); 16 Oct 2015 20:26:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 79312 invoked by uid 89); 16 Oct 2015 20:26:22 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: etr-usa.com Received: from etr-usa.com (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 20:26:21 +0000 Received: (qmail 16373 invoked by uid 13447); 16 Oct 2015 20:26:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO polypore.west.etr-usa.com) ([73.26.17.49]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 16 Oct 2015 20:26:20 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2104\)) Subject: Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ? From: Warren Young In-Reply-To: <19032584.20151016193336@yandex.ru> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 20:26:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <19032584.20151016193336@yandex.ru> To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-10/txt/msg00240.txt.bz2 On Oct 16, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: >=20 > Is there a possibility to build man for Cygwin with PerlRE support? I=E2=80=99m curious: what sort of incantations do you frequently give to ma= n which involve REs? Maybe I=E2=80=99m just too old-school, but I wasn=E2=80=99t aware that mode= rn man programs even supported REs. Back when I was a boy, we said =E2=80= =9Cman -k whatsit=E2=80=9D and we liked it! :) I think if I wanted to grep man pages with Perl syntax, I=E2=80=99d say grep -PRsl whatsit /usr/share/man Poking around on machines near me, I see Lucifredi=E2=80=99s version of man= =E2=80=94 which doesn=E2=80=99t seem to support regexes =E2=80=94 on OS X = 10.10, FreeBSD 10.1, and CentOS 5. Apparently RHEL moved to man-db in EL6 = or EL7, since it=E2=80=99s on an EL7 box nearby. -- 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