Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: In the bash man page the entry for the 'read' command has two spaces after it instead of one. Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 23:49:20 -0600 Lines: 15 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <874mjsyc1e.fsf@igel.home> <1440182059.2430.18.camel@16bits.net> <87d1ygv67h.fsf@igel.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1440222569 23958 208.118.235.17 (22 Aug 2015 05:49:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu To: bug-bash@gnu.org, bash@packages.debian.org, =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C1ngel_Gonz=E1lez?= , Jerry Marbas Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: bug-bash@gnu.org, bash@packages.debian.org, =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C1ngel_Gonz=E1lez?= , Jerry Marbas Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87d1ygv67h.fsf@igel.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11420 Andreas Schwab wrote: > =C3=81ngel Gonz=C3=A1lez writes: > > entering =C2=AB/^ *read=E2=A4=B6=C2=BB may be easier to type (and re= member) >=20 > It won't match, though. It matches fine for me. Although I suggest adding the square bracket so as to avoid the other false positives as long as one knows that read has options documented. This works. /^ *read *\[ Bob