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Re: Deprecation of egrep

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Vin Shelton <acs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Zsh Hackers' List" <zsh-workers@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Deprecation of egrep
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 17:10:08 -0700
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On Sat, Sep 10, 2022 at 9:06 AM Vin Shelton <acs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The latest release of grep officially deprecates egrep in favor of "grep -E".

A quick check reveals six uses, all of which could be replaced with
zsh pattern matching ... five are scanning the output of "locale -a"
and the last the output of "setopt".

References:
- Deprecation of egrep
  - From: Vin Shelton

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