Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote: > IMHO, they must be removed. > Anyone who requires to be able to use "egrep" or "fgrep" from the > command line can use a function or alias. Given their lack of > standardization, those should not be used in scripts.
I beg to differ. Scripts is one thing. But breaking 40+ years of interactive usage merely because POSIX doesn't standardize fgrep and egrep (anymore!) is doing thousands of users a disservice. As software suppliers, we need to take into account the bigger picture of day-to-day usage, and not only what POSIX standardizes and doesn't standardize. And I'm willing to bet that the majority of grep/egrep/fgrep invocations come from the command line rather than from scripts. Arnold
