It's Past Time To Stop Using egrep and fgrep Commands, Per GNU grep 3.8

Re:It's Past Time To Stop Using egrep and fgrep Commands, Pe... by ggm on Monday September 05, 2022 @11:34PM (#32732508)

I don't see why. since grep -F and grep -E exemplify the code (PCRE aside) then why can't sys.argv() be checked for fgrep or egrep name, so that

  ln grep egrep;

just works? This feels like somebody rode their hobby horse round the table.

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