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From: williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: egrep source needed
Keywords: egrep Minix 1.5.10 cnews
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Date: 15 Aug 90 13:28:10 GMT
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In article <1990Aug14.210556.17910@loft386.uucp> wbrown@loft386.uucp (Wayne Brown) writes:
>
>While trying to install C-News under Minix 1.5.10, I discovered that it makes
>quite a bit of use of egrep.  Rather than go through all the shell scripts
>and change them to use grep, I'd rather get a copy of egrep.  Does anyone have
>a copy of egrep that runs under Minix?  If so, please send me a copy.
>
>Wayne Brown		uunet!loft386!ledgepc!wayne

Unless the scripts use egrep - specific regular expression syntax,

		ln /usr/bin/grep /usr/bin/egrep

Should do the trick ...


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