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It's Past Time To Stop Using egrep and fgrep Commands, Per GNU grep 3.8

• josephcsible 4y ago
  What's the point of deprecating and removing these, since all of the code that actually implements them still has to be there for grep -E and grep -F to work?
• gladiatr72 4y ago
  Thank Christ 3.7 will compile cleanly for many years to come. Let me guess.. RedHat sourced patch?
• bashonly 4y ago
  also noteworthy is that grep -P will now use PCRE2 instead of PCRE, which is potentially a breaking change for anyone using grep -P in their shell scripts
• ggm 4y ago
  I don't see why. since grep -F and grep -E exemplify the code (PCRE aside) then why can't sys.argv() be checked for fgrep or egrep name, so that ln grep egrep; just works? This feels like somebody rode their hobby horse round the table.