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| 2022-09-07 |
Slackware patches around GNU grep changes |
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The GNU project raised some eyebrows earlier this month with the release of GNU grep 3.8 which altered the normal functioning of egrep and fgrep with a message which told users to no longer use these commands and, instead, use plain grep. While more people are changing their scripts and workflow to match, Patrick Volkerding plans to restore the commands to their normal, functioning status: " Folks, I rarely veto upstream, but I'm not going to entertain this nonsense. The egrep and fgrep commands were part of Unix since the 70s, continue to be included with the BSDs, and frankly, aren't hurting anything. GNU grep declared them deprecated in 2007 and when they were changed into shell scripts around 8 years ago I figured that's where it would end. I can see no logical justification to have these scripts start making noise and then to eventually pull the rug out from under any code that might be using them, so I've placed non-noisy versions of them into the package sources and will be installing those during the build. Given that the -F and -E options are part of the POSIX standard, these scripts will continue to work fine." |
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