After spending nearly an hour updating all of the scripts in the test
framework for one of my open source projects to no longer use egrep,
I’m going to say it:
We should not deprecate egrep and fgrep
egrep and fgrep have been around since the 1970s, were in wide use
well over 25 years ago on the
> On 13 Oct 2022, at 18:46, Sam Trenholme wrote:
>
> After spending nearly an hour updating all of the scripts in the test
> framework for one of my open source projects to no longer use egrep,
> I’m going to say it:
>
> We should not deprecate egrep and fgrep
>
> egrep and fgrep have been ar
hi all,
On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 18:52:51 +0100
Sam James wrote:
> > On 13 Oct 2022, at 18:46, Sam Trenholme wrote:
> >
> > After spending nearly an hour updating all of the scripts in the test
> > framework for one of my open source projects to no longer use egrep,
> > I’m going to say it:
> >
>
>vanity
Presumably, "vanity" here is the older definition which more
accurately renders as "frivolous" in modern English, as in not
important or meaningless.
I think the point the GNU grep maintainers are making is that egrep
and fgrep, much to my surprise, aren't actually part of POSIX.
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