Re: grep-3.5 released [stable]

[Jim Meyering]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:04 AM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
> Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
> > grep cannot bootstrap itself. It is a known problem.
> >
> > Jeff
>
> Paul & Jim,
>
> Attached is a simple version of egrep, written in gawk. Maybe it
> can be of use on systems that have gawk but don't have a working grep?

Thanks for the suggestion, but I feel it's not worth it: if they lack
grep, they probably lack gawk, too.
If we could emulate minimal grep+egrep via classic awk (on Solaris) or
perl I would be more interested.