I'm so confused by this change. fgrep and egrep are already just shell scripts that are almost just like aliasing grep -E and grep -F. Why is the GNU team suddenly so worried about these shell scripts?
If the maintenance of these scripts is so hard. They could just deprecate them entirely. It's pretty unlikely that they would stop working or become insecure anytime soon. And sysadmins would just source in the aliases into their shell environments anyway....
If the maintenance of these scripts is so hard. They could just deprecate them entirely. It's pretty unlikely that they would stop working or become insecure anytime soon. And sysadmins would just source in the aliases into their shell environments anyway....