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		im3w1l on Oct 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We are stuck with egrep and fgrep (unless you like... Yet another reason why shellscripts are bad huh.

grnmamba on Oct 13, 2022 [–]

How does the article lead to this conclusion?

im3w1l on Oct 13, 2022 | [–]

People are upset that changing literally anything on the system like adding a deprecation warning to stderr will break their fragile shellscript setup.

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