Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 05:00:49PM +0000, Pollywog wrote: >> I need the man page for regexp but can't seem to locate it. >> Anyone know where I can obtain it? I searched the Packages page but >> could not find it there. > >You need regex(7), not regex(5) (section 5 is for config files et al). >Regex(7) is in the "manpages" package.
To elaborate, 'man 7 regex' will get you the right page; regex(3) also exists, and if you have it installed then man will show you pages from section 3 before pages from section 7. 'man -a regex' will show you all pages with that name. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]