From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 06:50:59 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (nl invocation): Specify that these are _basic_
X-Git-Tag: v5.2.1~37
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=df1dd184d781eb88aad0eaef65e3164e09208d20;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(nl invocation): Specify that these are _basic_
regular expressions (BRE), and add a link to grep's documentation.
---

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 6e074f5fa9..eebcb0088b 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -1331,8 +1331,10 @@ number all lines,
 number only nonempty lines (default for body),
 @item n
 do not number lines (default for header and footer),
-@item p@var{regexp}
-number only lines that contain a match for @var{regexp}.
+@item p@var{bre}
+number only lines that contain a match for the basic regular
+expression @var{bre}.
+@xref{Regular Expressions, , Regular Expressions, grep, The GNU Grep Manual}.
 @end table
 
 @item -d @var{cd}