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From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>
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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?

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