From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 07:58:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (usage): Specify that nl uses _basic_ regular expressions.
X-Git-Tag: v5.3.0~2050
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d86b014ebb9550a33e0f9b90bb5d42b6bd207777;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(usage): Specify that nl uses _basic_ regular expressions.
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diff --git a/src/nl.c b/src/nl.c
index cc4865ef48..648e36e0a7 100644
--- a/src/nl.c
+++ b/src/nl.c
@@ -215,7 +215,8 @@ second character implies :.  Type \\\\ for \\.  STYLE is one of:\n\
   a         number all lines\n\
   t         number only nonempty lines\n\
   n         number no lines\n\
-  pREGEXP   number only lines that contain a match for REGEXP\n\
+  pBRE      number only lines that contain a match for the basic regular\n\
+              expression, BRE\n\
 \n\
 FORMAT is one of:\n\
 \n\