From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 18 6:39:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from brockman.tinet.ie (mail1.tinet.ie [159.134.237.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97D9D37B403; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 06:39:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from p233.as1.limerick1.eircom.net ([159.134.164.233] helo=dansat.data-plan.com) by brockman.tinet.ie with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #23) id 15uDOL-0003Cc-00; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:39:22 +0100 Received: (from timbo@localhost) by dansat.data-plan.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9IDdL719146; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:39:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from timbo) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:39:17 +0100 From: Tim Bunce To: gkm@gnu.org, Tom.Horsley@mail.hcsc.com, pst@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu, meyering@ascend.com Subject: devel/id-utils, or something better? Message-ID: <20011018143917.J8270@dansat.data-plan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Getting fed up with running lots of find ... | xargs grep -w foo I remembered the very handy mkid/eid/gid/lid etc set of tools I've used several years previously. I found them in FreeBSD ports under devel/id-utils but was disappointed (and surprised) to find the development seemed to have stopped again in 1999 after a gap since 1996 - especially as I seem to be tripping over some bugs (relating to default language used to parse files with no suffix). These are great tools and it seems odd for development to have stopped so I was wondering if perhaps something better had come along. And if so, what? I did find this, highlighting tha fact that FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE is using the six year old version of the software: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=23140 any chance that can be actioned? Tim. p.s. Please accept my apologies if this email is poorly addressed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message