On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 05:33:45PM +0800, Zorro Lang wrote:
> Due to the change in grep project:
> a95156247098 ("egrep, fgrep: now obsolete")
>
> some tests start to fail on latest Fedora system with grep-3.8-1.fc38
> or newer version, as:
>
> generic/447 70s ... egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
> ...
> @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
> QA output created by 447
> +egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
> ...
>
> So use grep -E and -F to instead of egrep and fgrep commands.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zorro Lang <zlang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> common/rc | 11 +++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/common/rc b/common/rc
> index a25cbcd0..dee3965e 100644
> --- a/common/rc
> +++ b/common/rc
> @@ -30,6 +30,17 @@ dd()
> fi
> }
>
> +# The egrep and fgrep are obsolescent
> +egrep()
> +{
> + grep -E "$@"
> +}
> +
> +fgrep()
> +{
> + grep -F "$@"
> +}
Why not conditionally define these *only* if the system doesn't already
have an egrep/fgrep binary?
(Alternately I guess you could take Murphy's patch, since that's the
proper fix according to the gnu grep maintainers...)
--D
> +
> # Prints the md5 checksum of a given file
> _md5_checksum()
> {
> --
> 2.31.1
>
