On Wednesday 25 October 2006 20:51, Michael Sullivan wrote: [SNIP] > cat * | grep -Po "\[\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+\]" ;) http://www.ruhr.de/home/smallo/award.html > It worked fine right up until this afternoon. Now I get this: > > michael@bullet ~/spam $ cat * | grep -Po "\[\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+\]" > grep: The -P option is not supported > michael@bullet ~/spam $ [SNIP] My guess would be that you need to enable a pcre use flag for sys-apps/grep. -- Bo Andresen