`egrep` has been deprecated in GNU grep since 2007, and in current
post 3.7 Git it has been made to emit obsolescence warnings:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=
a9515624709865d480e3142fd959bccd1c9372d1
#TRACE# echo "------------------"
#TRACE# echo "vpnc-script environment:"
-#TRACE# env | egrep '^(CISCO_|INTERNAL_IP|VPNGATEWAY|TUNDEV|IDLE_TIMEOUT|reason)' | sort
+#TRACE# env | grep -E '^(CISCO_|INTERNAL_IP|VPNGATEWAY|TUNDEV|IDLE_TIMEOUT|reason)' | sort
#TRACE# echo "------------------"
#TRACE# set -x