On 2023-10-16 20:28, Sam James wrote:
grep is not from coreutils. As for the issue you discuss, it's being
brought up on the grep mailing lists already
I moved this new bug report to the grep package and merged it with the
grep mailing list discussions, which already pretty much eliminated
using POSIXLY_CORRECT as that environment variable is not meant for this
sort of thing. For details please see <https://bugs.gnu.org/66582> and
follow the "Merged with" links.
and as a crusty 50+ year old myself, I'm not
planning to train my fingers out of using it either.
I may have you beat there. I had been using egrep since 1976. I visited
Bell Labs in the 1970s and talked to some of the people who developed
Unix. I have fond memories of using egrep in complicated and unexpected
ways (and having it crash on me). Sigh. Those were the days....
