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Bug#932173: release-notes: grep should be egrep in section 4.6.1 for buster



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Hi Stefan

On 16-07-2019 11:12, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Package: release-notes
> Severity: minor
> 
> In Section 4.6.1 of the Release Notes for buster, this command is suggested:
> 
>     dpkg -l "linux-image*" | grep ^ii | grep -i meta
> 
> I believe this should be:
> 
>     dpkg -l "linux-image*" | egrep ^ii | grep -i meta

Care to elaborate? On my system the output of both commands is
identical, and if I read the man page of grep correctly, ^ is just part
of regular grep, so it doesn't need -E.

Paul

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