On 12/22/22 09:16, Thomas Wolff wrote:
These tools spill out warnings that are irritating almost everyone, moreover, they
are threatening to be removed.
There was some discussion about this earlier this year, but with no consolidated
outcome, so I'd like to raise the issue again.
Some weird and wrong arguments were presented; first, many GNU tools do have POSIX
extensions, including grep.
Second and particularly:
egrep and fgrep were not entirely portable even before POSIX deprecated them in
2001
grep -E and grep -F were not portable either! There are legacy systems which had
egrep and fgrep but did not have grep options -E and -F.
So all this achieves is really to annoy thousands of people and to waste time of
hundreds of package maintainers.
Please have mercy with the community. Give us the comfort of not being bothered when
using egrep and fgrep in the future, and if it is as a Christmas present.
Thanks
Thomas
If building from source, workaround with:
sed -i "s/echo/#echo/" src/egrep.sh
before configure.
If not use:
sed -i "s/echo/#echo/" /usr/bin/[ef]grep
-- Bruce Dubbs
linuxfromscratch.org
