bug#49996: egrep and fgrep?

[Paul Eggert]

On 8/15/21 7:25 AM, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> I'm willing to bet that the majority of grep/egrep/fgrep invocations
> come from the command line rather than from scripts.

That's not true for me, as I almost always invoke 'grep' via a script or 
shell function or Emacs. And I'm skeptical that it's true worldwide.

I doubt whether we should remove egrep and fgrep immediately, as that'd 
be a bit sudden. But it's a good time to take the next step. Proposed 
patch attached.

0001-egrep-fgrep-now-obsolete.patch
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