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Use grep -E over egrep #124

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egrep has been deprecated in GNU grep since version 2.5.3 (2007) and since version 3.8 emits a warning[1]

egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E

Avoid this warning by following its suggestion.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2022-09/msg00001.html

`egrep` has been deprecated in GNU grep since version 2.5.3 (2007) and since version
3.8 emits a warning[1]

> egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E

Avoid this warning by following its suggestion.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2022-09/msg00001.html
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