diff --git a/xdg-utils-egrep.patch b/xdg-utils-egrep.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7c949ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xdg-utils-egrep.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From 7538458c6c8999296a272c40bd4ec24132a51877 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: E5ten <ethancsommer@gmail.com>
+Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 02:06:09 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] switch from non-standard "egrep" to POSIX "grep -E"
+References: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1203092
+  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/-/merge_requests/21
+  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/-/merge_requests/44
+  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/-/issues/207
+
+---
+ scripts/xdg-open.in | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/scripts/xdg-open.in b/scripts/xdg-open.in
+index 202f3e3..35b0522 100644
+--- a/scripts/xdg-open.in
++++ b/scripts/xdg-open.in
+@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ get_key()
+ is_file_url_or_path()
+ {
+     if echo "$1" | grep -q '^file://' \
+-            || ! echo "$1" | egrep -q '^[[:alpha:]][[:alpha:][:digit:]+\.\-]*:'; then
++            || ! echo "$1" | grep -Eq '^[[:alpha:]][[:alpha:][:digit:]+\.\-]*:'; then
+         return 0
+     else
+         return 1
+-- 
+GitLab
+
diff --git a/xdg-utils.changes b/xdg-utils.changes
index e509cd4..18fbc3f 100644
--- a/xdg-utils.changes
+++ b/xdg-utils.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Sep  4 17:29:24 UTC 2022 - Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
+
+- xdg-open: convert usage of obsolete egrep to grep -E
+  add xdg-utils-egrep.patch, boo#1203092
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jul 26 07:16:43 UTC 2022 - jslaby@suse.cz
 
diff --git a/xdg-utils.spec b/xdg-utils.spec
index b8b5ef7..4da9951 100644
--- a/xdg-utils.spec
+++ b/xdg-utils.spec
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Patch0:         install-some-more-scripts.diff
 Patch1:         0001-Don-t-run-kreadconfig-if-KDE_SESSION_VERSION-is-5.patch
 # PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE support-deepin-desktop.patch hillwood@opensuse.org
 Patch2:         support-deepin-desktop.patch
+Patch3:         xdg-utils-egrep.patch
 BuildRequires:  make
 # for xmlto to be able to generate text from html
 BuildRequires:  w3m