Follow-up Comment #3, bug #28329 (project grep):
> I think setting -E in GREP_OPTIONS is an incredibly bad idea
> :-) as it will break scripts.
Since extended REs are almost completely backward compatible with simple REs,
I think it is unlikely that this will break many scripts. I haven't found
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #28329 (project grep):
Irrelevant to the ticket, but FWIW, I use GREP_OPTIONS to do excludes:
--directories=skip --exclude-dir=.svn --exclude=*~
The only problem I've had is with older greps that don't have the options.
So it goes.
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Update of bug #28329 (project grep):
Severity: 3 - Normal => 2 - Minor
Summary: egrep error when GREP_OPTIONS=-E => egrep/fgrep
should accept respectively -E/-F
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