Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:00:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: des@yes.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: replacing grep(1) Message-ID: <199907271200.OAA01990@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <xzpd7xeb9xc.fsf@des.follo.net> from Dag-Erling Smorgrav at "Jul 27, 1999 1:37:35 pm"
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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: > > <URL:http://www.freebsd.org/~des/software/grep-0.7.tar.gz>; > > 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
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