I too agree with the sentiment that it's wrong to obsolete
egrep and fgrep, and have said so.
I received this today from a gawk pre-tester who is unhappy
with the warnings generated by egrep use in the gawk test suite:
| I haven't time to find those battles with the grep people: I just
| fail to
On 2023-10-16 20:28, Sam James wrote:
grep is not from coreutils. As for the issue you discuss, it's being
brought up on the grep mailing lists already
I moved this new bug report to the grep package and merged it with the
grep mailing list discussions, which already pretty much eliminated
usi
