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Re: [PATCH] tests/array.tests: using grep -E instead of egrep


From: Robert Elz
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests/array.tests: using grep -E instead of egrep
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 18:49:36 +0700

    Date:        Mon, 19 Feb 2024 18:33:31 +0900
    From:        Koichi Murase <myoga.murase@gmail.com>
    Message-ID:  
<CAFLRLk-ZRvddvctnekwBjHL01B6qHWtrF3fwharK_yrZBpOKfA@mail.gmail.com>

  | GNU grep started to output error messages in v3.8 (2022-09) for egrep,
  | so the test failure will be happening in most GNU/Linux distributions
  | soon.

That (as in, gnu grep) should be fixed.  There's no reason not
to use grep -E on systems that have it, and similarly no reason
not to use egrep (or fgrep) on systems that have it (or them).

egrep is 2 chars less to type than grep -E, and does not involve
use of the shift key.  It is also traditional.  Issuing warnings
for using it is insane.

kre



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