Package: pcregrep Architecture: amd64 Version: 2:8.39-15 Priority: optional Section: utils Source: pcre3 Maintainer: Matthew Vernon Installed-Size: 70 Replaces: pgrep (<< 4.5) Filename: ./p/pcregrep/pcregrep_8.39-15_amd64.deb Size: 27532 MD5sum: a951d96799de5899f336438ce6af9bce SHA1: d1beffe071c46f520bde701c6e3934404f1b4cdc SHA256: 2c6f709a750e01c6d3d9411384264120798f40fad6cf2d0fe0f84279dac1f25e SHA512: a07098aa6acf95c09635759d6cfed1359cf640d075db62da4f5d395f194e634d9b297298c87b78a71b9ac3beecbdf985cd0145f1a17ceb52d93769a38520e976 Description: grep utility that uses perl 5 compatible regexes. Perl-style regexps have many useful features that the standard POSIX ones don't; this is basically the same as grep but with the different regexp syntax. . The other reason for the existence of pcregrep is that its source code is an example of programming with libpcre.