Package: pcregrep Architecture: i386 Version: 2:8.39-15 Priority: optional Section: utils Source: pcre3 Maintainer: Matthew Vernon Installed-Size: 65 Replaces: pgrep (<< 4.5) Filename: ./p/pcregrep/pcregrep_8.39-15_i386.deb Size: 27272 MD5sum: 77a90184d211dad88b712f127e377312 SHA1: 2abf8b612ec0f1eab4febef035da4c91491a37d2 SHA256: ac495e0d92b101febcfcfa362e180e694c329e51c9fffb42e76f92336b7a2e40 SHA512: 5b4dbf570d3e715f47bd13a0ff543277b55e3a4ceced4e6fbf1f7057037c5dfb0a9820818545fe237a913d6cc5c3a3479141772e54aff6d925dd389b02814e47 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.