pcre

A library that implements Perl 5-style regular expressions

Maintainers

• The Core Planners: chef-core-planners@chef.io

Type of Package

Binary package

Use as Dependency

Binary packages can be set as runtime or build time dependencies. See Defining your dependencies for more information.

To add core/pcre as a depdendency, you can add one of the following to your plan file.

Buildtime Dependency

pkg_build_deps=(core/pcre)

Runtime Depdendency

pkg_deps=(core/pcre)

Use as Tool

Installation

To install this plan, you should run the following commands to first install, and then link the binaries this plan creates.

hab pkg install core/pcre

» Installing core/pcre

☁ Determining latest version of core/pcre in the 'stable' channel

☛ Verifying core/pcre/8.42/20200305232429

✓ Installed core/pcre/8.42/20200305232429

★ Install of core/pcre/8.42/20200305232429 complete with 1 new packages installed.

hab pkg binlink core/PKG

» Binlinking pcregrep from core/pcre into /bin

★ Binlinked pcregrep from core/pcre/8.42/20200305232429 to /bin/pcregrep

Using an example binary

You can now use the binary as normal:

/bin/pcregrep --help or pcregrep --help

pcregrep version 8.42 2018-03-20