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author | green <green@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-03-20 16:21:53 +0000 |
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committer | green <green@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-03-20 16:21:53 +0000 |
commit | 5802589ba8a4501696e3241529b0cfdd5011d0fc (patch) | |
tree | 1e732982d801e77bf1e7a002f9a476da6036518f /usr.bin | |
parent | 951269d7a5643e0f198d8b6344ab46f1757159da (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-5802589ba8a4501696e3241529b0cfdd5011d0fc.zip FreeBSD-src-5802589ba8a4501696e3241529b0cfdd5011d0fc.tar.gz |
Fix a couple hard sentence breaks I inadvertently introduced. Also,
update a bit of English into something easier to read.
Prompted by: sheldonh (thanks!)
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/sed/sed.1 | 16 |
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 |