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Commit a5141130 authored by Brendan Jackman's avatar Brendan Jackman
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logcat: Note in help that regexps are Perl-compatible 

The expressions accepted by the '-e'/'--grep' command line option are
PCRE:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/master/logcat/logcat.cpp#1018

Say so in the help string.

Change-Id: I7f6af130d5e39570bb49310a928f5d495e5b269b
parent f0da1c42

logcat/logcat.cpp

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@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ static void show_help(android_logcat_context_internal* context) { 
                    "  -d              Dump the log and then exit (don't block)\n"

                    "  -e <expr>, --regex=<expr>\n"

                    "                  Only print lines where the log message matches <expr>\n"

                    "                  where <expr> is a regular expression\n"

                    "                  where <expr> is a Perl-compatible regular expression\n"

                    // Leave --head undocumented as alias for -m

                    "  -m <count>, --max-count=<count>\n"

                    "                  Quit after printing <count> lines. This is meant to be\n"