From: Đoàn Trần Công Danh Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 13:02:29 GMT Subject: [PATCH v2 1/4] CodingGuidelines: allow grep -E Message-ID: <4ad1ac9d9b25f2fc5a2ada28cae0413c04b07e21.1663765176.git.congdanhqx@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Despite forbidden by CodingGuidelines, our usage of 'grep -E' has been increased over the years, and noone has come and complained. Let's lift the restriction. Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh --- Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index 9fca21cc5f..cb7a367ea0 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -162,8 +162,6 @@ For shell scripts specifically (not exhaustive): - We do not use \{m,n\}; - - We do not use -E; - - We do not use ? or + (which are \{0,1\} and \{1,\} respectively in BRE) but that goes without saying as these are ERE elements not BRE (note that \? and \+ are not even part -- 2.38.0.rc0