Re: grep-3.5 released [stable]

[arnold]

Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:

> 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.

There is a slightly older version of the egrep in awk program that
would work with straight 'new awk'.  However, getting it to do BREs
would be a challenge.

Let me know if interested.

Arnold