On Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 1:53 PM Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Patrick O'Callaghan said:
> > On Sat, 2023-04-29 at 10:23 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > > I'd wager there are shell scripts using fgrep that were written on
> > > the first pdp-11 unix and are still in use today
> >
> > IIRC
Once upon a time, Patrick O'Callaghan said:
> On Sat, 2023-04-29 at 10:23 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > I'd wager there are shell scripts using fgrep that were written on
> > the first pdp-11 unix and are still in use today
>
> IIRC early PDP-11 UNIX (pre System V) only had grep. fgrep and egrep
On Sat, 2023-04-29 at 10:23 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I'd wager there are shell scripts using fgrep that were written on
> the first pdp-11 unix and are still in use today
IIRC early PDP-11 UNIX (pre System V) only had grep. fgrep and egrep
are later additions. (Not trying to counter your
I'd wager there are shell scripts using fgrep that were written on
the first pdp-11 unix and are still in use today, but appeasing
someone's OCD is more important than backward compatibility for
tens of thousands of systems all over the world. OK fine, I know
I'll lose any argument here, so I've
