Re: [GTALUG] Fedora 38 is out

On Fri., Apr. 21, 2023, 14:13 BCLUG via talk, <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

I never, ever use fgrep or egrep and I think it's a bad idea.

Well, that's me told. I've used fgrep since the days when regular grep on a large file would take minutes, while fgrep would take seconds. I also learned egrep's slightly weird syntax at the same time. This was before PCRE was a thing. Before long-form options were a thing, too Deprecation of free software is so pointless. To break scripts for some imagined purity is flat-out daft. Stewart