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thebeardisred on Oct 13, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: We are stuck with egrep and fgrep (unless you like...

For me, that's the biggest takeaway:

Nothing is stopping users from maintaining the behavior they had previously.

It's being made explicit that the burden of maintaining that behavior is changing.

MobiusHorizons on Oct 13, 2022 | [–]

What exactly do you think the burden of _not_ changing a shell script is?

TillE on Oct 13, 2022 | [–]

Yeah, this is a good point. This is basically just GNU saying that those old aliases are not something they want within the scope of grep itself.

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