Re: problem with egrep and fgrep

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Hans-Bernhard,

> > A thought I just had is that when the install is done why can't you
> > put the full path into the wrappers? 
>
> Because hardwired paths just as easy to break, both on purpose and
> accidentally, as the PATH search method which you stumbled over.

That doesn't ring true.  Certainly, after `make install', it isn't
expected that a package will work other than where it has been
installed, unless something like GNU Stow is used to patch things up, so
there seems little reason why the egrep script can't hardcode grep's
location.

Cheers,

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