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).
