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grep -E instead of egrep?


From: David Kastrup
Subject: grep -E instead of egrep?
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:34:10 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

I saw the following change:

2006-10-15  Lennart Borgman  [...]

        * progmodes/ada-xref.el (ada-find-in-src-path): Likewise.
        Use grep -E rather than egrep.

Is there a particular reason to prefer "grep -E"?  I would have
thought that "egrep" is much more portable?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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