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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#49996: egrep and fgrep? |
| Date: | Wed, 11 Aug 2021 00:34:04 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.11.0 |
On 8/11/21 12:22 AM, Simon Josefsson via Bug reports for GNU grep wrote:
I think the main reason for deprecating them was that POSIX dropped a requirement for them?
As I recall, it was because they were kinda useless cruft. Portable scripts can't use egrep and fgrep since they're not standardized, and for personal command-line usage aliases suffice and 'eg' is a better alias anyway (it's less typing).
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