Why grep still exists?

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Subject: Why grep still exists?
From: jqdkf@zju.edu.cn
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 07:39:51 +0800
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Hi,

I'm just wondering why grep still exists in every distribution of UNIX
or UNIX like system. As egrep can support a full featured regular
expression, it is much more powerful than grep. Is it only for backport
support?

-- 
Zeng Nan

Simple is Beautiful.

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