From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:44:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests: grep portability fixes
Message-ID: <20080930124413.GA22078@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <e2b179460809300410q47592f63y7f7ec626007ad838@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:10:19PM +0100, Mike Ralphson wrote:

> > There is one exception for "-e" here, which is in t7701 used
> > to produce an "or" of patterns. This can be rewritten as an
> > egrep pattern.
> >
> > This patch also removes use of "grep -F" in favor of the
> > more widely available "fgrep".
> 
> Works here too (AIX 5.3)
> 
> Tested-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk>

Thanks Mike and Johannes. The dropping of "-e" and "-q" we had done
before, but this was our first use of egrep and fgrep. From my
(admittedly limited) knowledge, I think they are fine, but it is nice to
have some confirmation.

-Peff