Opened 14 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#6540 closed enhancement (no change required)
Request to evaluate freegrep as a replacement for GNU grep
| Reported by: | l_n | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | R1 |
| Component: | Applications/Command Line Tools | Version: | R1/Development |
| Keywords: | grep | Cc: | mdisreali@… |
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description
I recently ported freegrep to Haiku, which is BSD-licensed. Since its license is more in line with the Haiku system license, I thought it may be good to incorporate it as the system grep in Haiku. The binary and source are at http://haikuware.com/directory/view-details/utilities/command-line-shell/freegrep .
Change History (7)
comment:1 by , 14 years ago
| Component: | Applications → Applications/Command Line Tools |
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comment:2 by , 14 years ago
comment:3 by , 14 years ago
| Cc: | added |
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Does it make a difference if the files have been "Identified" or are still seen as 'Generic File'?
comment:5 by , 13 years ago
I've not worked with/on Haiku in quite a while. I may take it back up at some point. My thoughts on fixing it were to change the test case to a BeAPI call or some other more conventional method..
comment:6 by , 13 years ago
According to the todo file in NetBSD's version, the issue with freegrep's binary file detection is a known issue.
comment:7 by , 10 years ago
| Resolution: | → no change required |
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| Status: | new → closed |
freegrep has not been updated since 2010, as it was included in "base" FreeBSD (and probably the other *BSDs too).
Now that we have switched to package management, you can easily switch grep implementations anyway.
I've discovered that freegrep has issues with mimetype-tagged text files. For some reason, it thinks they are binary files. I think this has something to do with f->noseek (which seems to be used as the test for whether a file is binary or text) being set by a call to isatty(fd) (where 'fd' is the filedescriptor for the current file being searched).