[5235] in Athena Bugs
/bin/grep vs. /usr/ucb/grep
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Thu Jun 21 14:27:31 1990
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 90 15:39:12 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
/bin/grep should be removed in 7.1. /usr/ucb/grep should be
installed in its place, and /usr/ucb/grep should be changed into a
symbolic link to /bin/grep (for backwards compatibility for programs
that rely on the existence of /usr/ucb/grep).
This is necessary because /bin/grep has some bugs that /usr/ucb/grep
doesn't have. Note only that, but /bin/grep is bigger than
/usr/ucb/grep (at least on the RT).
Note that /bin/grep has to be the one that's installed and not a
symlink because grep has to be on the root partition.
jik
