A windows git-bash script to use a newer version of grep, egrep, fgrep in git-bash.

install-mingw-grep.sh

#!/bin/bash

set -e
set -o pipefail

cd $TEMP

archives=(
  'grep-2.5.4-2-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma'
  'libiconv-1.14-1-msys-1.0.17-dll-2.tar.lzma'
  'libintl-0.18.1.1-1-msys-1.0.17-dll-8.tar.lzma'
)

files=(
  'grep.exe'
  'egrep.exe'
  'fgrep.exe'
  'msys-iconv-2.dll'
  'msys-intl-8.dll'
)

URL="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mingw"
SEVEN_ZIP="/c/Program Files/7-Zip/7z"
GIT_HOME="/c/Program Files (x86)/Git"

exit_on_error() {
  if [ $1 -ne 0 ]; then
      echo "error detected, exiting..."
      exit 1
  fi
}

for archive in ${archives[*]}; do
    echo "Downloading $archive"
    curl -L -O "$URL/$archive"
    exit_on_error $?

    echo "Extracting Files using 7-Zip"
    tar_archive=`basename $archive .lzma`
    "$SEVEN_ZIP" x -y "$archive"
    "$SEVEN_ZIP" x -y -ogrep "$tar_archive"

    echo "Removing archives"
    rm -f "$archive"
    rm -f "$tar_archive"
done

echo "Copying Files to $GIT_HOME"
cd "$GIT_HOME/bin"
rm -f egrep
ls -l "$TEMP"/grep/bin/*
mv -f "$TEMP"/grep/bin/* .

echo "Resetting file permissions"
for file in ${files[*]}; do
    icacls "$file" //reset
done

rm -rf "$TEMP/grep"

echo "Done!"

exit 0