On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 4:01 PM Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> Some must care about portability,
>
> Certainly agreed. Even I do, sometimes :). But that does not mean
> everyone needs to, in every situation. As I said, I fail to understand
> the benefit of making the warning unconditional.
>
> On 11 Sep 2022, at 21:41, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 4:01 PM Karl Berry wrote:
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>>Some must care about portability,
>>
>> Certainly agreed. Even I do, sometimes :). But that does not mean
>> everyone needs to, in every situation. As I said, I fail to u
On 9/11/22 14:45, Sam wrote:
On 11 Sep 2022, at 21:41, Jim Meyering wrote:
On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 4:01 PM Karl Berry wrote:
Hi Jim,
Some must care about portability,
Certainly agreed. Even I do, sometimes :). But that does not mean
everyone needs to, in every situation. As I said, I
AFAIK, these new warnings cause no malfunction.
Only if you've already changed your entire world not to use [ef]grep.
Then of course the warnings have no effect :).
Otherwise, they certainly do. I have scripts that run [ef]hundreds of
times (in loops, on lots of files). grep is fundamental t
