Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:55:05 +0100 (CET) From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" <giffunip@yahoo.com> To: howardjp@vocito.com, des@ofug.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: replacing GNU grep with UNIX grep. Message-ID: <20030203155505.49450.qmail@web13407.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <51848.198.137.241.11.1044283243.squirrel@m.vocito.com>
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That's very cool! Congratulations!
NetBSD has a BSD sort, I understand it's based on the
Minix version, so we are getting very near to cleaning
all the utilities from the GPL.
cheers,
Pedro.
--- "James P. Howard II" <howardjp@vocito.com> ha
scritto: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav said:
> > 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 have received patches over the past week that put
> freegrep's speed
> within striking distance of GNU. Sometime RSN I am
> going to release an
> update incorporating these patches.
>
> Jamie
>
>
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