Thanks for following up; sounds like grep is OK then, so closing the bug.
- bug#20883: egrep on Solaris fails to call original grep bin... Vladimir Marek
- bug#20883: egrep on Solaris fails to call original gre... Paul Eggert
- bug#20883: egrep on Solaris fails to call original... Vladimir Marek
- bug#20883: egrep on Solaris fails to call orig... Paul Eggert