egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E #585

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adam · 2025-12-29T01:27:33+01:00

adam commented

2025-12-29 01:27:33 +01:00

Originally created by @christophfink on GitHub (Oct 20, 2022).

Thanks for this great tool, have been using it for a while, now.

Recently, I’ve started seeing warnings that egrep should be replaced with grep -E. I’m using grep-3.8.

For now, this is of course nothing more than a nuissance, but I would think that eventually, distributions will stop shipping an egrep.

Originally created by @christophfink on GitHub (Oct 20, 2022). Thanks for this great tool, have been using it for a while, now. Recently, I’ve started seeing warnings that `egrep` should be replaced with `grep -E`. I’m using **grep-3.8**. For now, this is of course nothing more than a nuissance, but I would think that eventually, distributions will stop shipping an `egrep`.

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2025-12-29 01:27:33 +01:00

@lukas2511 commented on GitHub (Oct 20, 2022):

fix was already in testing branch, merged together with a few other changes to master now, this issue should be fixed

@lukas2511 commented on GitHub (Oct 20, 2022): fix was already in testing branch, merged together with a few other changes to master now, this issue should be fixed

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Reference: starred/dehydrated#585