Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2023 18:54:26 -0500 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org, Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> Subject: Re: git: ceb5f28ba5fc - main - freebsd-update: re-edit files if merge conflict markers remain Message-ID: <CAPyFy2C4VKtaiijvpuNLvYwUc8kUVGRtiFzcredLrM8rUaDrmw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfpW0iv_sO5ae8qUED-FWY-Lt0WM5_DAtouzS_-n-Cun_Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <202303020121.3221LWHh070834@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <20230302192204.YPJ7f%steffen@sdaoden.eu> <CACNAnaGpBNEWbmrkFQ1zpYn%2BfxvyduPoN2ymm7H56qGi3pHTCQ@mail.gmail.com> <CANCZdfpW0iv_sO5ae8qUED-FWY-Lt0WM5_DAtouzS_-n-Cun_Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 at 15:37, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
> I doubt egrep will ever be deprecated. Too many scripts depend on it.
> And fixing this one is a drop in the bucket. I personally think the warning
> from gnu-grep is bananas...
Agreed on both points.
In the man page we have:
-E, --extended-regexp
Interpret pattern as an extended regular expression (i.e., force
grep to behave as egrep).
That said, it's conceivable that this could end up invoking GNU egrep
and thus emit a warning. It doesn't hurt to use grep -E instead.
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