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egrep-fgrep

Install deprecated 'egrep' and 'fgrep' wrappers for 'grep -E' and 'grep -F' respectively. GNU grep 3.8 onwards warns about their usage by default, but the versions installed by this flag do not. No deprecation warnings are emitted when this flag is enabled.

Packages describing “egrep-fgrep” as local USE flag

Package “egrep-fgrep” Flag Description
sys-apps/grep Install deprecated 'egrep' and 'fgrep' wrappers for 'grep -E' and 'grep -F' respectively. GNU grep 3.8 onwards warns about their usage by default, but the versions installed by this flag do not. No deprecation warnings are emitted when this flag is enabled.