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Date:      Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:52:48 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: diff(1)
Message-ID:  <xzphdpwn04v.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20040917191240.GR36708@green.homeunix.org> (Brian Fundakowski Feldman's message of "Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:12:40 -0400")
References:  <16715.4611.108597.354107@piglet.timing.com> <20040917.130549.22012205.imp@bsdimp.com> <20040917191240.GR36708@green.homeunix.org>

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Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> writes:
> But seriously, is this better than ports/textproc/freegrep which
> "should" have been the FreeBSD grep years ago?

freegrep still has a few bugs (like trying to grep directories), is
considerably slower than GNU grep, and lacks locale support IIRC.  On
the other hand, it uses FTS and therefore handles symlinks much better
than GNU grep.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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