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On 12/22/22 09:16, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> These tools spill out warnings that are irritating almost everyone, moreover, they
> are threatening to be removed.
> There was some discussion about this earlier this year, but with no consolidated
> outcome, so I'd like to raise the issue again.
> Some weird and wrong arguments were presented; first, many GNU tools do have POSIX
> extensions, including grep.
> Second and particularly:
>> egrep and fgrep were not entirely portable even before POSIX deprecated them in 2001
> grep -E and grep -F were not portable either! There are legacy systems which had
> egrep and fgrep but did not have grep options -E and -F.
> So all this achieves is really to annoy thousands of people and to waste time of
> hundreds of package maintainers.
> Please have mercy with the community. Give us the comfort of not being bothered when
> using egrep and fgrep in the future, and if it is as a Christmas present.
> Thanks
> Thomas
If building from source, workaround with:
sed -i "s/echo/#echo/" src/egrep.sh
before configure.
If not use:
sed -i "s/echo/#echo/" /usr/bin/[ef]grep
-- Bruce Dubbs
linuxfromscratch.org
bug-grep@HIDDEN:bug#60257; Package grep.
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