In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > I was looking around in the /bin directory, and there are several duplicate > files installed there. For example, grep, fgrep, and egrep are all the same > file. The program checks to see how it was called to determine what to do. > > Shouldn't files like egrep and fgrep be symbolic links to grep, and same for > any other program like this? > > Should bug reports be filed for these? > > Please CC to me, as I'm not on the list.
I only have egrep and fgrep in the /bin directory. Could you please send the output of 'dpkg -S /usr/bin/egrep' and 'dpkg -S /usr/bin/fgrep' so that we can identify the offending package. (and any other duplicate binaries you find) -Mitch
