Hi Brian, On Sep 29 12:55, Brian Inglis wrote: > Hi folks, [Please Reply All as ISP blocking Cygwin lists] > [...] > > /usr/share/doc/grep/ChangeLog > > https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=grep.git;a=log;h=refs/tags/v3.8 > > > > The change note below states that egrep and fgrep are deprecated > > obsolescent commands, will be dropped in future, and from this release > > until then, every use will show a stderr warning message, reminding you > > how to change your commands and scripts: > > > > $ egrep ... > > egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E > > ... > > $ fgrep ... > > fgrep: warning: fgrep is obsolescent; using grep -F > > ...
Please do everyone a favor and remove those warnings. egrep and fgrep are used abundantly in existing scripts and the user often has no choice or no knowledge how to fix this. If this is an upstream change, it's a bad one, breaking backward compatibility. Please fix this at least for our distro. Thanks, Corinna
