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typo in gnu grep's manual ?

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From: phs <phs <at> lsv.fr>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: typo in gnu grep's manual ?
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 19:24:37 +0100

I have gnu grep v3.3 as packaged by Homebrew

When I type man grep, the two sentences in the DESCRIPTION paragraph reads

       grep searches for PATTERNS in each FILE.  PATTERNS is one or
patterns separated by newline characters, and grep prints each line that
matches a pattern.

Obviously, the second sentence should read "PATTERNS is one or several
patterns" but the word 'several' is missing.

Looking at the source tree in
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/ I do not see a file
share/man/man1/grep.1 like I have on my laptop, so maybe the bug is with
the brew packaging...

Let me profit and thank you for the great free software.

Best,

--Philippe

Message #8 received at 34078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: phs <at> lsv.fr, 34078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34078: typo in gnu grep's manual ?
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 14:39:11 -0600

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On 1/14/19 12:24 PM, phs wrote:
> I have gnu grep v3.3 as packaged by Homebrew
> 
> When I type man grep, the two sentences in the DESCRIPTION paragraph reads
> 
>        grep searches for PATTERNS in each FILE.  PATTERNS is one or
> patterns separated by newline characters, and grep prints each line that
> matches a pattern.
> 
> Obviously, the second sentence should read "PATTERNS is one or several
> patterns" but the word 'several' is missing.

Thanks for the report.  I'd prefer "more" over "several" in this context.

> 
> Looking at the source tree in
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/ I do not see a file
> share/man/man1/grep.1 like I have on my laptop, so maybe the bug is with
> the brew packaging...

Not a packaging bug, but because the man page is generated from 'grep
--help' output combined with a template; running:

git grep 'is one or'

quickly locates the culprit file of doc/grep.in.1.

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3226
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Message #13 received at 34078-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: phs <at> lsv.fr
Cc: 34078-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: typo in gnu grep's manual ?
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 01:13:37 -0800

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Thanks for reporting that typo in the grep manual. I installed the attached
patch to fix it.

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