Re: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem

[Paul Eggert]

Charles Levert <address@hidden> writes:

>    -- The % thing is not too portable.

Yes, that's right.  But this is a more important objection:

>    -- Should for some reason /usr/bin/fgrep
>       be copied elsewhere or symlinked to, it
>       will fail to set dir=/usr/bin/ anymore.
>       (That would remain the case if sed were
>       used instead of the % construct.)

Yes.  This is why the coding standards say that you have to ship
programs that don't care what their names are.


> I'm not a big fan of anything else but the wrapper script approach.

Neither am I, and that is why I implemented the wrapper scripts in the
first place.  But they cause the problems mentioned above, so I'm
afraid they have to go, at least in the default installation.