--- grep.1.orig 2005-09-30 16:09:27.000000000 +0200 +++ grep.1 2005-11-06 16:30:22.000000000 +0100 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ .RI [ FILE .\|.\|.] .SH DESCRIPTION .PP -.B Grep +.B grep searches the named input .IR FILE s (or standard input if no files are named, or @@ -49,11 +49,11 @@ .B egrep and .B fgrep -are available. -.B Egrep +are available; +.B egrep is the same as -.BR "grep\ \-E" . -.B Fgrep +.BR "grep\ \-E" ; +.B fgrep is the same as .BR "grep\ \-F" . .SH OPTIONS @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ Regular expressions are constructed analogously to arithmetic expressions, by using various operators to combine smaller expressions. .PP -.B Grep +.B grep understands two different versions of regular expression syntax: \*(lqbasic\*(rq and \*(lqextended.\*(rq In .RB "\s-1GNU\s0\ " grep , @@ -680,7 +680,9 @@ \s-1POSIX.2\s0 allows this behavior as an extension, but portable scripts should avoid it. .SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES" -Grep's behavior is affected by the following environment variables. +The behavior of +.B grep +is affected by the following environment variables. .PP A locale .BI LC_ foo