Chris Siebenmann on Nostr: So Fedora 38 has chosen to break fgrep and egrep, to the fun of everyone who has them ...
So Fedora 38 has chosen to break fgrep and egrep, to the fun of everyone who has them in scripts, especially scripts in crontab entries.
$ fgrep fred /dev/null
fgrep: warning: fgrep is obsolescent; using grep -F
Adding output to standard error is an *incompatible change*. And this is happening only because the GNU Grep people are <redacted because I cannot think of quite the right phrase>.
$ fgrep fred /dev/null
fgrep: warning: fgrep is obsolescent; using grep -F
Adding output to standard error is an *incompatible change*. And this is happening only because the GNU Grep people are <redacted because I cannot think of quite the right phrase>.