bug#21088: Question about fgrep and egrep

2015-07-18 Thread Paul Eggert
LCD 47 wrote: Is there any plan to remove support for fgrep and egrep in the predictible future? If yes, is there any timeline set for that action? No. That being said, there's no rush to remove it. If and when it's removed I assume the removal will be an install-time option.

bug#21088: Question about fgrep and egrep

2015-07-18 Thread LCD 47
This is not a bug report, but there doesn't seem to be any better place for my question than this, so I'm asking it here. According to the manual: : In addition, the variant programs egrep and fgrep are the same as grep : -E and grep -F, respectively. These variants are deprecated, but a