From 216f754287f2123f45d274f0a003182524efd43d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2022 13:52:12 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Fix obsolescence doc for egrep, fgrep --- doc/grep.texi | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/grep.texi b/doc/grep.texi index 9f2f225..c371172 100644 --- a/doc/grep.texi +++ b/doc/grep.texi @@ -2105,9 +2105,9 @@ What happened to @command{egrep} and @command{fgrep}? that were the counterparts of the modern @samp{grep -E} and @samp{grep -F}. Although breaking up @command{grep} into three programs was perhaps useful on the small computers of the 1970s, @command{egrep} and -@command{fgrep} were not standardized by POSIX and are no longer needed. -In the current GNU implementation, @command{egrep} and @command{fgrep} -issue a warning and then act like their modern counterparts; +@command{fgrep} were deemed obsolescent by POSIX in 1992, +removed from POSIX in 2001, deprecated by GNU Grep 2.5.3 in 2007, +and changed to issue obsolescence warnings by GNU Grep 3.8 in 2022; eventually, they are planned to be removed entirely. If you prefer the old names, you can use use your own substitutes, -- 2.37.2