On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 8:11 PM Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > > On 8/15/21 7:25 AM, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > > I'm willing to bet that the majority of grep/egrep/fgrep invocations > > come from the command line rather than from scripts. > > That's not true for me, as I almost always invoke 'grep' via a script or > shell function or Emacs. And I'm skeptical that it's true worldwide. > > I doubt whether we should remove egrep and fgrep immediately, as that'd > be a bit sudden. But it's a good time to take the next step. Proposed > patch attached.
Thanks for writing that, Paul. The patch looks fine. The irony... that one of our own tests used fgrep! One nit in the commit log: > * src/egrep.sh: Issue a obsolescence warning. s/a/an/
