Re: [bug-grep] egrep and fgrep script assume path

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

> After all, each bug report about problems with the egrep script is an
> opportunity to teach people about grep -E   ;-)

If egrep and fgrep are causing so many problems, why not deprecate them
and encourage using -E and -F? We could continue to have egrep and fgrep,
but not have to worry about old problems with using them.

On another thought, just installing binaries for egrep and fgrep sounds
like a more practical solution.

Cheers,

TAA

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Tony Abou-Assaleh
Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Computer Science
Chair of the Dalhousie Student Chapter of the ACM
Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, B3H 1W5
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