> At a guess, it isn't actually the symlinks, it's the argument parsing they're trying to simplify. There’s no parsing. GNU’s egrep and fgrep are trivial shell

> At a guess, it isn't actually the symlinks, it's the argument parsing they're trying to simplify. There’s no parsing. GNU’s egrep and fgrep are trivial shell scripts: #!/bin/sh exec grep -E "$@"