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From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: simon@josefsson.org, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, bug-standards@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cmp/diff
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 19:07:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ktJbL-00014d-Gv@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d0d7eb3c-3990-8ed5-dfa0-031cf1e8f04d@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Sat, 26 Dec 2020 15:12:07 -0800)

   >> Looking at that list now, the only obvious tool to remove is egrep,
   >> since 'grep -E' subsumes it nowadays.
   > Yes, I think that should be dropped.

Maybe from usage in scripts or Makefile, but from a users point these
do not replace "grep -E" or "grep -F" which are far more annoying to
type than egrep or fgrep.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-27  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-26 16:24 cmp/diff Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list
2020-12-26 17:32 ` cmp/diff Bruno Haible
2020-12-26 18:34   ` cmp/diff Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list
2020-12-26 18:49     ` cmp/diff Bruno Haible
2020-12-26 19:12       ` cmp/diff Paul Eggert
2020-12-26 21:55         ` cmp/diff Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list
2020-12-26 23:12           ` cmp/diff Paul Eggert
2020-12-27  0:07             ` cmp/diff Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-27  0:23               ` cmp/diff Paul Eggert
2020-12-27  1:05                 ` cmp/diff Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-27  0:07             ` Alfred M. Szmidt [this message]
2020-12-27  0:43             ` egrep, fgrep, and install-info Bruno Haible
2020-12-27  1:12               ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-26 19:31       ` cmp/diff Paul Smith

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