On 2/16/21 11:54 AM, Walter Harms wrote: > My version of grep (V3) has a -P option and claims to support pcre. > Maybe that is a replacement for pcregrep ? > > Would reduce the dependencies by one. > > re, > wh Hi Walter, There's a problem with grep: it doesn't support the '-M' option, which allows for multi-line matches. So pcregrep is needed. Thanks, Alex -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/