F and fgrep are historical accidents. IMHO, the only reason they still exist is bad practice from the v6 era, when we only had a 16-bit address space. The interface could be preserved forever: the implementation? Less so. --dave On 4/22/23 16:34, William Park via talk wrote:
I don't know what's the issue. [ef]grep already is symlinked or shell scripts (exec grep -[EF] "$@"), and warning message is to stderr not stdout.
On 2023-04-22 11:51, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
| I hear that it ships with the latest GNU grep, which removes fgrep and egrep. | This could be considered a bad idea: | https://mastodon.social/@cks/110232377928840323
Ouch. Thanks for the heads-up.
I hope that it gets fixed. Unlikely to be fixed by GNU, I guess.
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