Subject: bug#49996: egrep and fgrep?

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 00:34:04 -0700

On 8/11/21 12:22 AM, Simon Josefsson via Bug reports for GNU grep wrote:
> I think the main reason for deprecating
> them was that POSIX dropped a requirement for them?

As I recall, it was because they were kinda useless cruft. Portable 
scripts can't use egrep and fgrep since they're not standardized, and 
for personal command-line usage aliases suffice and 'eg' is a better 
alias anyway (it's less typing).