Re: problem with egrep and fgrep

[Paul Jarc]

address@hidden (Bob Proulx) wrote:
> Using full hard coded paths is just a bad practice.

I disagree, but how's this for a compromise - look first in @bindir@,
and then in $PATH:

#!/bin/sh
grep=`PATH='@bindir@':$PATH which grep` || exit 2
case $grep in
  /*) exec "$grep" -E ${1+"$@"};;
  *) echo "$grep" >&2 && exit 2;;
esac

Or something similar.  (On NetBSD, "which" prints errors to stdout and
still exits 0.)


paul