pcregrep 2:8.39-12~18.10 (i386 binary) in ubuntu cosmic

 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.
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 The other reason for the existence of pcregrep is that its source code is an
 example of programming with libpcre.