RE: Use of deprecated 'egrep' and 'fgrep'

[rsbecker]

On September 28, 2022 7:16 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 09:08:28PM +0100, Sam James wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> grep 3.8 emits deprecation warnings for both 'egrep' and 'fgrep',
>> telling users to switch to 'grep -E' and 'grep -F' respectively.
>
>yes... I noticed this recently (in test-builds for xterm, e.g., Fedora
Rawhide),
>though I began working around it early this year.
>
>Having had no copies of 3.8 in the wild, there'll be spots that I
overlooked.
>Most of those are in configure macros and external scripts.

I found 3.0 on current versions of HPE NonStop operating system versions.
With that said, grep -e and grep -F are both supported.

-Randall