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authorgreen <green@FreeBSD.org>2000-03-20 16:21:53 +0000
committergreen <green@FreeBSD.org>2000-03-20 16:21:53 +0000
commit5802589ba8a4501696e3241529b0cfdd5011d0fc (patch)
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parent951269d7a5643e0f198d8b6344ab46f1757159da (diff)
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Fix a couple hard sentence breaks I inadvertently introduced. Also,
update a bit of English into something easier to read. Prompted by: sheldonh (thanks!)
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-rw-r--r--usr.bin/sed/sed.116
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/sed/sed.1 b/usr.bin/sed/sed.1
index 936b754..a6f0e55 100644
--- a/usr.bin/sed/sed.1
+++ b/usr.bin/sed/sed.1
@@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl E
Interpret regular expressions as extended (modern) regular expressions
-rather than basic regular expressions (BRE's). The
+rather than basic regular expressions (BRE's).
+The
.Xr re_format 7
manual page fully describes both formats.
.It Fl a
@@ -165,15 +166,16 @@ of the exclamation character
.Pc
function.
.Sh "Sed Regular Expressions"
-The
-.Nm
-regular expressions are basic regular expressions (BRE's, see
-.Xr regex 3
-for more information) by default.
+The regular expressions used in
+.Nm sed ,
+by default, are basic regular expressions (BREs, see
+.Xr re_format 7
+for more information).
.Nm
can use extended (modern) regular expressions instead if the
.Fl E
-flag is given. In addition,
+flag is given.
+In addition,
.Nm
has the following two additions to regular expressions:
.sp
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