Changeset 40488bd

Timestamp:

06/23/2022 10:11:46 AM (22 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, bdubbs/gcc13, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

bfc6495

Parents:

0b0fa07

Message:

grep: mark egrep and fgrep obsolete

They are deprecated since 2007, and the next grep release (3.8 or 4.0)
will print a warning if they are used.

Url: ​https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=a951562

File:

• chapter08/grep.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter08/grep.xml

@@ -78 +78 @@
         <term><command>egrep</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Prints lines matching an extended regular expression</para>
+          <para>Prints lines matching an extended regular expression.
+          It is obsoleted, use <command>grep -E</command> instead</para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-grep egrep">
             <primary sortas="b-egrep">egrep</primary>
@@ -88 +89 @@
         <term><command>fgrep</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Prints lines matching a list of fixed strings</para>
+          <para>Prints lines matching a list of fixed strings.
+          It is obsoleted, use <command>grep -F</command> instead</para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-grep fgrep">
             <primary sortas="b-fgrep">fgrep</primary>