2022-11-19 03:27:04

by Sergey Senozhatsky

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/vm/slabinfo-gnuplot: Use "grep -E" instead of "egrep"

On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 11:37 AM Tiezhu Yang <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The latest version of grep claims the egrep is now obsolete so the build
> now contains warnings that look like:
> egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
> fix this up by moving the related file to use "grep -E" instead.
>
> sed -i "s/egrep/grep -E/g" `grep egrep -rwl tools/vm`
>
> Here are the steps to install the latest grep:
>
> wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-3.8.tar.gz
> tar xf grep-3.8.tar.gz
> cd grep-3.8 && ./configure && make
> sudo make install
> export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
>
> Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>