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Re: egrep --color=always 'zsh\.'

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From: Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: egrep --color=always 'zsh\.'
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 04:18:29 -0400
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On Tue, Apr 2, 2024, at 6:55 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Consider perhaps fgrep which looks for literal strings rather than patterns.

Yes, although I would (and did) recommend "grep -F" because fgrep
(and egrep, for that matter) is no longer in POSIX, and recent GNU
grep prints an obsolescence warning when you invoke it as fgrep (or
egrep).

-- 
vq

References:
- egrep --color=always 'zsh\.'
  - From: Ray Andrews
- Re: egrep --color=always 'zsh\.'
  - From: Lawrence Velázquez
- Re: egrep --color=always 'zsh\.'
  - From: Ray Andrews
- Re: egrep --color=always 'zsh\.'
  - From: Lawrence Velázquez
- Re: egrep --color=always 'zsh\.'
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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