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: 27756 MD5sum: 5d2d486d6990ecfbcfd9f9fd3fe90021 SHA1: 38eadad586bb3c89bd6f5779be416a76061d8645 SHA256: e51876d1396bfe2e2b4d4b99a337960a21f40a46085a5ef05ae49fc23c9579d5 SHA512: f0d91d9fa357daf03247751ac706b1203dfbeb73a3b21249a77745a9bd27196feff93b7317c8aa5688db17ec7270aecd50a41dc9fed53317ed3c103761b7b0c1 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.