Changeset 995347d

Timestamp:

06/24/2022 02:07:28 PM (22 months ago)

Author:

William Harrington <kb0iic@…>

Branches:

arm

Children:

8e9d4bf

Parents:

c07d5a87

git-author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (06/23/2022 10:11:46 AM)

git-committer:

William Harrington <kb0iic@…> (06/24/2022 02:07:28 PM)

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>