./textproc/sift, Fast and powerful open source alternative to grep

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Branch: pkgsrc-2016Q2, Version: 0.6.0nb1, Package name: sift-0.6.0nb1, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

All the features you expect from a modern grep alternative.

RegEx - perl compatible regular expression syntax (no more escape
hell)

usable defaults - basic options known from grep but with usable
defaults

multiline support - find matches spanning over multiple lines
replace - replace output to reformat it to your needs without
relying on awk/sed

gzip files - search through normal and gzip'ed files in one program
call

multiple patterns - search for multiple patterns in one run
target selection - select or exclude search targets based on file
name, directory name, path and type

handling big data - sift handles big files without problems: files
>50GB, >5,000,000,000 lines and >5,000,000,000 matches successfully
tested


Required to build:
[devel/go-nbreader] [devel/go-flags-svent] [lang/go] [security/go-crypto]

Master sites:

SHA1: eae22261ed09cff6bb1b21bb2fcb0d0c28f6ab81
RMD160: ee9c6119e53503496b3c748fec292130e015cda5
Filesize: 33.234 KB

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