From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Apr 19 5:39:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A91E37B539 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 05:39:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA01015 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:39:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA00536 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:39:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D812D37B635 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 17:53:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac5.wam.umd.edu (root@rac5.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.145]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA25181; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 20:53:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac5.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac5.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA10579; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 20:53:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac5.wam.umd.edu (howardjp@localhost) by rac5.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA10574; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 20:53:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200004190053.UAA10574@rac5.wam.umd.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: rac5.wam.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs To: giffunip@asme.org Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: free grep (was Re: Shells) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 20:53:26 -0400 From: James Howard Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I read this in the -arch archives... Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > Heh..:-) Please replace grep with the recently developed free grep and HA! Freegrep is no where near ready. Everyone has complained about the speed issues (yeah, it was slow) and I am still working to speed it up. The version currently in the ports tree (textproc/freegrep) is a whole lot faster but still sucks compared to the GNU version. I tore my hair out trying to figure out how they did it. I last touched the sources in December and I am getting incrementally closer to the speed of GNU but I am still not there. I also think I broken a number of options but it depends on which release you are using. I think the 0.15 in the ports tree has most of the options currently working, but I am going from memory. Unfortunetly, I have not done anything since December and will not until June due to classwork (I hate being a student). If anyone is interested in looking at all the work completed so far, let me know and I will let you at the most current sources. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message