Re: grep -E vs. egrep

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

> > Since neither grep -E nor egrep is portable any more, here is a
> > patch that does essentially the same test as AC_PROG_EGREP for the
> > top-level configure.  Can be overridden with the EGREP envvar.
>
> Applied, thanks!

Would sed be more portable here? The patterns are very easy here.

$ make -v | sed -n -e '/GNU/p' -e '/makeapp/p'

This would also be consistent with autogen.sh which stays away from grep.

Alexei



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Alexei A. Podtelezhnikov, PhD