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annoying, needless warning messages from [fe]grep

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From: arnold <at> skeeve.com
To: sam <at> gentoo.org, noah <at> splode.com, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
Cc: 66582 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66582: annoying, needless warning messages from [fe]grep
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 01:13:13 -0600

I too agree with the sentiment that it's wrong to obsolete
egrep and fgrep, and have said so.

I received this today from a gawk pre-tester who is unhappy
with the warnings generated by egrep use in the gawk test suite:

| I haven't time to find those battles with the grep people: I just
| fail to understand how they have the arrogance to think that they
| can drop two tools --- egrep and fgrep --- that are part of the
| standard Unix toolbox, and Unix textbooks, and on the fingertips
| of millions of people.  That is simply not acceptable, and I hope
| that they see the error of their ways.

I doubt that error reports and discussions about this will
decrease over time; egrep and fgrep have been existing practice
for too long.

Thanks,

Arnold

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