linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts: coccicheck: use "grep -E" instead of "egrep"

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Date:   Wed, 21 Sep 2022 21:26:10 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
cc:     cocci@...ia.fr, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: coccicheck: use "grep -E" instead of "egrep"



On Wed, 21 Sep 2022, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> The latest version of grep claims that 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 vdso Makefile to use "grep -E" instead.
>
> Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>
> Cc: Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>
> Cc: cocci@...ia.fr
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

Applied, thanks.

> ---
>  scripts/coccicheck | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/coccicheck b/scripts/coccicheck
> index caba0bff6da7..2956fce8fa4f 100755
> --- a/scripts/coccicheck
> +++ b/scripts/coccicheck
> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ FLAGS="--very-quiet"
>  # inspected there.
>  #
>  # --profile will not output if --very-quiet is used, so avoid it.
> -echo $SPFLAGS | egrep -e "--profile|--show-trying" 2>&1 > /dev/null
> +echo $SPFLAGS | grep -E -e "--profile|--show-trying" 2>&1 > /dev/null
>  if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
>  	FLAGS="--quiet"
>  fi
> --
> 2.37.3
>
>