diff(1)

Brian Fundakowski Feldman green at freebsd.org
Fri Sep 17 13:03:52 PDT 2004


On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 09:52:48PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green at freebsd.org> writes:
> > But seriously, is this better than ports/textproc/freegrep which
> > "should" have been the FreeBSD grep years ago?
> 
> freegrep still has a few bugs (like trying to grep directories), is
> considerably slower than GNU grep, and lacks locale support IIRC.  On
> the other hand, it uses FTS and therefore handles symlinks much better
> than GNU grep.

Do you happen to know anything about the OpenBSD grep?

-- 
Brian Fundakowski Feldman                           \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\
  <> green at FreeBSD.org                               \  The Power to Serve! \
 Opinions expressed are my own.                       \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\


More information about the freebsd-arch mailing list