From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 27 5: 1:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D191153DD for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 05:01:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA01990; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:00:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <199907271200.OAA01990@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: replacing grep(1) In-Reply-To: from Dag-Erling Smorgrav at "Jul 27, 1999 1:37:35 pm" To: des@yes.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:00:48 +0200 (CEST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Jamie Howard (howardjp@wam.umd.edu), with a little help from yours > truly, has written a BSD-licensed version of grep(1) which has all the > functionality of our current (GPLed) implementation, plus a little > more, in one seventh the source code and one fourth the binary code. > What's more, the code is actually possible for mere mortals to read > and understand. > > The source code is available for download from freefall: > > > > I move that we replace GNU grep in our source tree with this > implementation, once it's been reviewed by all concerned parties. Go for it, the more GNU stuff we nuke the better :) -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message