Re: grep -E instead of egrep?

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> The SUSv3  [1] doesn't have  any entry for  « egrep », and  only knows
> about « grep -E ». egrep hasn't been « carried forward ».

Thanks, I did not know about that.

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