> The old egrep and fgrep commands are likely to be supported for many
> years to come as implementation extensions, allowing historical
> applications to operate unmodified.
GNU grep 3.8 started to warn[1]:
> The egrep and fgrep commands, which have been deprecated since
> release 2.5.3 (2007), now warn that they are obsolescent and should
> be replaced by grep -E and grep -F.