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Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 17:29:57 -0500
Subject: Re: replacing GNU grep with UNIX grep.
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To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
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On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 05:12 PM, Roman Neuhauser wrote:

> # des@ofug.org / 2003-02-03 13:20:04 +0100:
>> Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> writes:
>>> Also the GNU grep has a lot more options, the most interesting
>>> of them being -r.
>>
>> Unfortunately, GNU grep's -r option is broken (it does not handle
>> symnlinks correctly).  Try textproc/freegrep from ports instead.
>
>     I believe the Subversion team has a BSD-like-licensed grep library.

no, we don't.  we have a BSD-like-licensed diff library that's coming 
along nicely, and hopefully will replace gnu diff/diff3 in subversion 
fairly soon, but not grep.

-garrett


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