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Re: egrep moved to /usr/sbin



H. S. Teoh wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:10:17PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > 
> > > Should I file bugs against packages that hardcode the old location of
> > > [ef]grep? (Or should I back out that patch?)
> > 
> > Move it back, unless you can prove that startup scripts don't need their
> > functionality.
> 
> OK, I'm getting conflicting opinions here. Should I move them back, or
> should I leave them where they are and file bugs against packages that
> hardcode /bin?

It's obvious that startup scripts don't need egrep and fgrep, since the
same functionality is available in grep -E and grep -F.

Craig

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