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textproc/sift,
Fast and powerful open source alternative to grep
Branch: CURRENT,
Version: 0.9.0nb19,
Package name: sift-0.9.0nb19,
Maintainer: pkgsrc-usersAll 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:[
lang/go119]
Master sites:
Filesize: 36.564 KB
Version history: (Expand)
- (2024-04-05) Updated to version: sift-0.9.0nb19
- (2024-02-07) Updated to version: sift-0.9.0nb18
- (2024-01-10) Updated to version: sift-0.9.0nb17
- (2023-12-05) Updated to version: sift-0.9.0nb16
- (2023-11-10) Updated to version: sift-0.9.0nb15
- (2023-10-29) Updated to version: sift-0.9.0nb14
CVS history: (Expand)