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grep branch, master, updated. v3.8-2-g216f754


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: grep branch, master, updated. v3.8-2-g216f754
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2022 15:04:22 -0400 (EDT)

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commit 216f754287f2123f45d274f0a003182524efd43d
Author: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date:   Tue Sep 6 13:52:12 2022 -0500

    Fix obsolescence doc for egrep, fgrep

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,

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 doc/grep.texi | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


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