Warning : egrep is obsolete

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#390 Warning : egrep is obsolete

Milestone: testing_clonezilla

Status: open

Owner: nobody

Labels: None

Priority: 5

Updated: 2022-12-08

Created: 2022-11-24

Creator: Swâmi Petaramesh

Private: No

Hi,
Running on recent distros (grep 3.8), clonezilla spits warnings that egrep is now obsolete and should be replaced with "grep -E".

❯ egrep
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E

Discussion

Steven Shiau - 2022-12-08

Thanks for your feedback. If this message is shown in the booting, it's form live boot or live config. We might have to report this to our upstream.
Could you please take a photo about this message on the whole screen? It's easier for us to understand more.
Thanks.

Steven

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Swâmi Petaramesh - 2022-12-08

Hi,
No, this message is displayed running clonezilla inside any distribution using a recent version of grep.
You basically need to find/replace any occurence of “egrep” in your clonezilla bash scripts with “grep -E”, that's all to it.

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Steven Shiau - 2022-12-08

In the unstable repository of DRBL, you should be able to find the latest versions of DRBL and Clonezilla, which has addressed this issue:
http://free.nchc.org.tw/drbl-core/pool/drbl/unstable/

Steven

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