Bug#973974: RFP: grab -- simple but very fast grep

2020-11-20 Thread Yangfl
Any adantages over existing grep alternatives (ack, silversearcher-ag, ripgrep)?



Bug#973974: RFP: grab -- simple but very fast grep

2020-11-08 Thread Harri T.
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: grab
  Upstream Author : Sebastian Krahmer
* URL : https://github.com/stealth/grab
* License : BSD Variant
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description : simple but very fast grep

https://github.com/stealth/grab
> This is my own, experimental, parallel version of grep so I can test
> various strategies to speed up access to large directory trees. On
> Flash storage or SSDs, you can easily outsmart common greps by up a
> factor of 8.