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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2022-09-06 13:52:12 -0500 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2022-09-06 14:04:09 -0500 |
| commit | 216f754287f2123f45d274f0a003182524efd43d (patch) | |
| tree | 37498557ab06afa0e71cee01fc7812cbf7d90050 /doc | |
| parent | 65e303a17ed8f19d60e569e5c9cda80843a10bff (diff) | |
| download | grep-216f754287f2123f45d274f0a003182524efd43d.tar.gz | |
Fix obsolescence doc for egrep, fgrep
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/grep.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/grep.texi b/doc/grep.texi index 9f2f225a..c3711724 100644 --- a/doc/grep.texi +++ b/doc/grep.texi @@ -2105,9 +2105,9 @@ What happened to @command{egrep} and @command{fgrep}? that were the counterparts of the modern @samp{grep -E} and @samp{grep -F}. Although breaking up @command{grep} into three programs was perhaps useful on the small computers of the 1970s, @command{egrep} and -@command{fgrep} were not standardized by POSIX and are no longer needed. -In the current GNU implementation, @command{egrep} and @command{fgrep} -issue a warning and then act like their modern counterparts; +@command{fgrep} were deemed obsolescent by POSIX in 1992, +removed from POSIX in 2001, deprecated by GNU Grep 2.5.3 in 2007, +and changed to issue obsolescence warnings by GNU Grep 3.8 in 2022; eventually, they are planned to be removed entirely. If you prefer the old names, you can use use your own substitutes, |