Seriously, what's the deal? Just use aliases instead, if you're fond of using egrep or fgrep yourself. Refactoring and re-deploying scripts should not be a big

Seriously, what's the deal? Just use aliases instead, if you're fond of using egrep or fgrep yourself. Refactoring and re-deploying scripts should not be a big issue in any environment either these days. Admin/Devs are lazy, yes. But THAT is the least of their problems maintaining shell scripts.