Re: need man 5 regexp
Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 05:00:49PM +0000, Pollywog wrote:
>> I need the man page for regexp but can't seem to locate it.
>> Anyone know where I can obtain it? I searched the Packages page but
>> could not find it there.
>
>You need regex(7), not regex(5) (section 5 is for config files et al).
>Regex(7) is in the "manpages" package.
To elaborate, 'man 7 regex' will get you the right page; regex(3) also
exists, and if you have it installed then man will show you pages from
section 3 before pages from section 7. 'man -a regex' will show you all
pages with that name.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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