SpaceCadet, 1 year ago

nowadays egrep is not recommended to use. grep -E is a more portable synonim

Not directed at you personally, but this is the kind of pointless pedantry from upstream developers that grinds my gears.

Like, I’ve used egrep for 25 years. I don’t know of a still relevant Unix variant in existence that doesn’t have the egrep command. But suddenly now, when any other Unix variant but Linux is all but extinct, and all your shell scripts are probably full of bashisms and Linuxisms anyway, now there is somehow a portability problem, and they deem it necessary to print out a warning whenever I dare to run egrep instead of grep -E? C’mon now … If anything, they have just made it less portable by spitting out spurious warnings where there weren’t any before.