On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 12:49:37AM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:25:45 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote > > On Sep 29 12:55, Brian Inglis wrote: > > > > /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. > > This was released as test at the start of September, reiterated at the end > of September on this list, then promoted to current stable and announced > early October:
Planning for the future, could the grep package provide egrep and fgrep in /etc/alternatives? Then a new (optional) package, say "grepfe" could provide /etc/alternative shell scripts (or binaries) which called grep -F and grep -E. Cheers, Glenn
