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What’s wrong with removing the commands and adding shell aliases instead? That sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

eg. In bash, they can be expressed as:

alias fgrep=grep -F

alias egrep=egrep -E

This sounds like a push for purity - similar to what happened in Python 3 with the move from print “xyz” (special keyword) to print(“xyz”) (standard function).

The new function requires three additional keystrokes every time it is used.



It breaks my script that calls /usr/bin/fgrep




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