Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote on 2023-04-24 19:44:
For security, of course deprecation can be a good idea. But this isn't for security. This is merely FSF being petty.
Yeah, it's weird. -------------------------- root@b0x1 [~] └─» # for F in $(which egrep fgrep rgrep) ; do file ${F}; cat ${F} ; echo ; done /usr/bin/egrep: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable #!/bin/sh exec grep -E "$@" /usr/bin/fgrep: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable #!/bin/sh exec grep -F "$@" /usr/bin/rgrep: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable #!/bin/sh exec grep -r "$@" -------------------------- There's not much to maintain there, doesn't make sense. Per https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2022-09/msg00001.html:
The egrep and fgrep commands, which have been deprecated since release 2.5.3 (2007), now warn that they are obsolescent and should be replaced by grep -E and grep -F
Huh. Deprecated since 2007, that's quite a while. Have various distros been substituting redirect shell scripts in lieu of separate binaries? rb