On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, James J. Sorenson wrote:
> I'm starting to wonder if fileutils is worth it.
In my opinion, no. The system already includes most of that stuff...
> I just wanted the colored ls and the expanded grep command,
You're on your own for the former (I suggest installing your own color ls
without using the whole fileutils package), but as for the latter the
default install gives you several options:
% ls -la /usr/bin/*grep*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 105548 Dec 21 15:10 /usr/bin/egrep
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 105548 Dec 21 15:11 /usr/bin/fgrep
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 105548 Dec 21 15:11 /usr/bin/grep
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14640 Dec 21 15:13 /usr/bin/nigrep
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1371 Sep 2 2001 /usr/bin/zgrep
%
Note that the filesizes & timestamps of three of those are similar or
identical, suggesting that (guessing here) all three are egrep, and thus
already offer the extended functionality that you're probably looking for.
as for the other two, nigrep seems to be for searching NetInfo, while
zgrep is for scanning gzip compressed files. All of this came with the
system, I didn't install it.
> As to my earlier question. Is this list searchable? I can't seem to
> find a mail-list search tool on the web-page.
Urls for all lists are available at http://fink.sourceforge.net/lists/;
this list is at http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=fink-users.
There are a couple of better [read: searchable] copies of the archives,
but off the top of my head I can't remember where they are...
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