[pcthrowaway]

egrep has been on a deprecation path for 15 years, and the replacement is incredibly straightforward. Also, I think egrep will generally just continue to work.

I'm not sure what you mean by "recent", but this is more longevity than we get in the node/JS world.

I'm primarily a JS (now TS) dev, who also throws bash at things when it makes more sense, but let's not kid ourselves that it's the same.