Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote on 2023-04-24 19:44:
For security, of course deprecation can be a good idea. But this isn't
for security. This is merely FSF being petty.
Yeah, it's weird.
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root@b0x1 [~]
└─» # for F in $(which egrep fgrep rgrep) ; do file ${F}; cat ${F} ;
echo ; done
/usr/bin/egrep: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
#!/bin/sh
exec grep -E "$@"
/usr/bin/fgrep: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
#!/bin/sh
exec grep -F "$@"
/usr/bin/rgrep: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
#!/bin/sh
exec grep -r "$@"
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There's not much to maintain there, doesn't make sense.
Per https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2022-09/msg00001.html:
> The egrep and fgrep commands, which have been deprecated since
> release 2.5.3 (2007), now warn that they are obsolescent and should
> be replaced by grep -E and grep -F
Huh. Deprecated since 2007, that's quite a while.
Have various distros been substituting redirect shell scripts in lieu of
separate binaries?
rb
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