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Re: Use of deprecated 'egrep' and 'fgrep'
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: Use of deprecated 'egrep' and 'fgrep' |
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Wed, 28 Sep 2022 19:16:27 -0400 |
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On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 09:08:28PM +0100, Sam James wrote:
> Hi,
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> grep 3.8 emits deprecation warnings for both 'egrep' and 'fgrep',
> telling users to switch to 'grep -E' and 'grep -F' respectively.
yes... I noticed this recently (in test-builds for xterm, e.g.,
Fedora Rawhide), though I began working around it early this year.
Having had no copies of 3.8 in the wild, there'll be spots that I overlooked.
Most of those are in configure macros and external scripts.
I'll tidy up that, of course.
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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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