Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:03:45 -0400 From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diff(1) Message-ID: <20040917200345.GT36708@green.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <xzphdpwn04v.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <16715.4611.108597.354107@piglet.timing.com> <20040917.130549.22012205.imp@bsdimp.com> <20040917191240.GR36708@green.homeunix.org> <xzphdpwn04v.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 09:52:48PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > 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. Do you happen to know anything about the OpenBSD grep? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\
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