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Re: Use of deprecated 'egrep' and 'fgrep'


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: Use of deprecated 'egrep' and 'fgrep'
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 19:16:27 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13)

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 09:08:28PM +0100, Sam James wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> grep 3.8 emits deprecation warnings for both 'egrep' and 'fgrep',
> telling users to switch to 'grep -E' and 'grep -F' respectively.

yes... I noticed this recently (in test-builds for xterm, e.g.,
Fedora Rawhide), though I began working around it early this year.

Having had no copies of 3.8 in the wild, there'll be spots that I overlooked.
Most of those are in configure macros and external scripts.

I'll tidy up that, of course.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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