Bug 231060 - pkill.1: clarify that patterns are EREs
Summary: pkill.1: clarify that patterns are EREs
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Manual Pages (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Some People
Assignee: Guangyuan Yang
URL:
Keywords: patch
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2018-08-31 16:03 UTC by Christian Weisgerber
Modified: 2018-12-04 02:32 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Christian Weisgerber freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-08-31 16:03:14 UTC 
Created attachment 196751 [details]
pkill.1 patch

In the pkill man page, clarify that the patterns are EXTENDED regular
expressions.  I shouldn't have to guess, try, or look at the source
for this.
Comment 1 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-12-01 05:58:47 UTC 
A commit references this bug:

Author: ygy
Date: Sat Dec  1 05:58:33 UTC 2018
New revision: 341357
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/341357

Log:
  Clarify that patterns are extended regular expressions in pkill(1) manual page.

  PR:		231060
  Submitted by:	naddy
  MFC after:	3 days

Changes:
  head/bin/pkill/pkill.1
Comment 2 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-12-04 02:30:22 UTC 
A commit references this bug:

Author: ygy
Date: Tue Dec  4 02:30:12 UTC 2018
New revision: 341452
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/341452

Log:
  MFC r341357:

  Clarify that patterns are extended regular expressions in pkill(1) manual page.

  PR:		231060
  Submitted by:	naddy

Changes:
_U  stable/12/
  stable/12/bin/pkill/pkill.1