On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 01:37:44PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> ...
> I doubt egrep will ever be deprecated. Too many scripts depend on it.

Oh come on, it's somewhat ironic to hear that from you Warner who
apparently loves to deprecated things. :-)

Seriously though, [ef]grep should go.  Installing what should be one's
shell aliases as first-class programs always seemed dubious to me.
Admittedly, I welcome GNU grep guys' rather unpopular* decision to help
the world clean up those scripts.

> warning from gnu-grep is bananas...

As any deprecation warning, it can be annoying, but how else would you
nudge people to fix their scripts?

./danfe

*) https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=269840

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