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commit e6571dfd459f55de975ef457cf7dbd4b49ec491c
Author: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date:   Thu Jun 10 14:55:21 2021 -0700

    doc: improve examples and wording
    
    * doc/grep.texi (The Backslash Character and Special Expressions)
    (Usage): Improve doc (Bug#48948).

diff --git a/doc/grep.texi b/doc/grep.texi
index e3b1555..01ac81e 100644
--- a/doc/grep.texi
+++ b/doc/grep.texi
@@ -1479,10 +1479,10 @@ Match the empty string at the edge of a word.
 Match the empty string provided it's not at the edge of a word.
 
 @item \<
-Match the empty string at the beginning of word.
+Match the empty string at the beginning of a word.
 
 @item \>
-Match the empty string at the end of word.
+Match the empty string at the end of a word.
 
 @item \w
 Match word constituent, it is a synonym for @samp{[_[:alnum:]]}.
@@ -1667,23 +1667,22 @@ The @option{-i} option causes @command{grep}
 to ignore case, causing it to match the line @samp{Hello, world!}, which
 it would not otherwise match.
 
-Here is a more complex example session,
+Here is a more complex example,
 showing the location and contents of any line
 containing @samp{f} and ending in @samp{.c},
 within all files in the current directory whose names
-contain @samp{g} and end in @samp{.h}.
+start with non-@samp{.}, contain @samp{g}, and end in @samp{.h}.
 The @option{-n} option outputs line numbers, the @option{--} argument
-treats any later arguments starting with @samp{-} as file names not
-options, and the empty file @file{/dev/null} causes file names to be output
+treats any later arguments as file names not options even if
+@code{*g*.h} expands to a file name that starts with @samp{-},
+and the empty file @file{/dev/null} causes file names to be output
 even if only one file name happens to be of the form @samp{*g*.h}.
 
 @example
-$ @kbd{grep -n -- 'f.*\.c$' *g*.h /dev/null}
-argmatch.h:1:/* definitions and prototypes for argmatch.c
+grep -n -- 'f.*\.c$' *g*.h /dev/null
 @end example
 
 @noindent
-The only line that contains a match is line 1 of @file{argmatch.h}.
 Note that the regular expression syntax used in the pattern differs
 from the globbing syntax that the shell uses to match file names.
 

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