2018-03-08 If you want PCRE on the command line but your grep(1) does not offer `-P' (*not* offering it is what it *should* do!), you can use this one: perlgrep() { perl -e 'my $re = shift; print grep { /$re/ } <>;' "$@" } [0] Discovered some interesting facts about the GIF format. [1] You *are* able to use more than 256 colors, just not within one block ... but you can use multiple blocks for building True Color GIF images! [0] https://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=168942#p1167421 [1] https://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=168943&p=1167436#p1167436 http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke