#109 Recent versions of egrep generate warning

[David Walker]

Recent versions of egrep (now included in openSUSE Tumbleweed) now print a deprecation warning, saying to use "grep -E". For example:

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

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It'd be great if logwatch's scripts could be updated to use "grep -E".

[Andreas Stieger]

proposed patch

[Bjorn]

Thanks for the patch.

While in the past egrep was a separate executable, its functionality has been incorporated as grep -E for many years now, so this is unlikely to break still running systems.

[Andreas Stieger]

So... would you like to merge it? I do not see it merged.

[Bjorn]

Sorry; I had committed the changes, but neglected to push them. Should be there now.