Re: duplicate binaries

[Mitch Blevins <mblevin@mindspring.com>]

In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> I was looking around in the /bin directory, and there are several duplicate files installed there.  For example, grep, fgrep, and egrep are all the same file.  The program checks to see how it was called to determine what to do.
> 
> Shouldn't files like egrep and fgrep be symbolic links to grep, and same for any other program like this?
> 
> Should bug reports be filed for these?
> 
> Please CC to me, as I'm not on the list.

I only have egrep and fgrep in the /bin directory.
Could you please send the output of
'dpkg -S /usr/bin/egrep'
and
'dpkg -S /usr/bin/fgrep'
so that we can identify the offending package.

(and any other duplicate binaries you find)

-Mitch