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[PATCH] egrep, fgrep: go back to shell scripts

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Message #13 received at 17080 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 17080 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17080: [PATCH] egrep, fgrep: go back to shell scripts
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:43:48 -0700

On 03/27/2014 10:53 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> using shell scripts will be bad news for any
> system that doesn't use a Unix shell

So, we're talking about users who want the circa-1977 Unix interface for 
'grep' but who refuse to install a Unix-like shell anywhere on their 
system?  If there's need to support that, I suppose someone could write 
and test an egrep.c that mimicks what the egrep shell script does.  I'd 
be open to such a change, though to be honest it sounds low-priority.

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