GNU bug report logs - #49996
egrep and fgrep?

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org>

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 07:23:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org>
Cc: 49996 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49996: egrep and fgrep?
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).
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