Re: Rebuilding system after aptitude

[Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de>]

Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 12 June 2016 17:21:10 Sven Hartge wrote:

>> egrep is in /bin/egrep and in the package grep. grep itself is
>> "Priority: required" so you can't not have this package. If you don't
>> have /bin/egrep, then your system is way more broken than you may
>> hope. Or "/bin" is not in your $PATH, which would also be strange.

> grep is indeed there, but egrep, which IIRC is supposed to be a softlink 
> to grep, is not.

No, egrep is a simple shell script:

#!/bin/sh
exec grep -E "$@"

S°

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