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Re:In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for?... by pwg on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @11:33AM (#24422130)
The GNU tool-set merged all three into grep, and kept the fgrep and egrep names for backwards compatibility. This is described in the man page in this manner:

> In addition, two variant programs egrep and fgrep are available. egrep is the same as grep -E. fgrep is the same as grep -F. Direct invocation as either egrep or fgrep is deprecated, but is provided to allow historical applications that rely on them to run unmodified.

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Re:In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for?... by dfalzone on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @04:03PM (#24425306)
That sure sounds like GNU. Instead of building tiny tools that each do one things, just make one big tool that can do a bunch of things depending on which of a hundred flags you use. Not to shit on GNU; I use GNU/Linux on all my own computers. But I notice that a lot of GNU software suffers from severe feature creep.
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