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bug#57613: grep man page tries to rewrite POSIX history
From: |
Geoff Clare |
Subject: |
bug#57613: grep man page tries to rewrite POSIX history |
Date: |
Tue, 6 Sep 2022 13:28:37 +0100 |
The grep 3.8 man page at https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/grep.html
says, under "What happened to egrep and fgrep?":
egrep and fgrep were not standardized by POSIX
This is factually incorrect. They were included in POSIX.2-1992 but marked as
obsolescent. When POSIX.2-1992 and POSIX.1-1996 were merged (along with the
Single UNIX Specification) to form POSIX.1-2001, the obsolescent features from
POSIX.2-1992 were removed.
Suggested fix - change:
egrep and fgrep were not standardized by POSIX and are no longer needed
to:
egrep and fgrep were marked obsolescent when they were standardized by POSIX in
1992 and were removed in the 2001 revision; they have long been deprecated by
GNU.
(I have it second hand that the GNU deprecation occurred in 2007; you could
give that date instead of saying "long" if you can confirm it.)
- bug#57613: grep man page tries to rewrite POSIX history,
Geoff Clare <=