Re: replacing GNU grep with UNIX grep.

2003-02-09 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-03 13:20:04 +0100: Sergey Babkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also the GNU grep has a lot more options, the most interesting of them being -r. Unfortunately, GNU grep's -r option is broken (it does not handle symnlinks correctly). Try textproc/freegrep from

Re: replacing GNU grep with UNIX grep.

2003-02-09 Thread Garrett Rooney
On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 05:12 PM, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-03 13:20:04 +0100: Sergey Babkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also the GNU grep has a lot more options, the most interesting of them being -r. Unfortunately, GNU grep's -r option is broken (it does

Re: replacing GNU grep with UNIX grep.

2003-02-09 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-09 17:29:57 -0500: On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 05:12 PM, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-03 13:20:04 +0100: Sergey Babkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also the GNU grep has a lot more options, the most interesting of them being -r.

Re: replacing GNU grep with UNIX grep.

2003-02-04 Thread Eirik Nygaard
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:39:47PM -0500, Munish Chopra wrote: On 2003-02-03 18:51 +, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: The classic Unix including BSD4.4 UNIX is now under a BSD-like license too (finding it is another issue though ;). Kirk McKusick sells a CD-ROM collection containing all

Re: replacing GNU grep with UNIX grep.

2003-02-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Sergey Babkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also the GNU grep has a lot more options, the most interesting of them being -r. Unfortunately, GNU grep's -r option is broken (it does not handle symnlinks correctly). Try textproc/freegrep from ports instead. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL

Re: replacing GNU grep with UNIX grep.

2003-02-03 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
The classic Unix including BSD4.4 UNIX is now under a BSD-like license too (finding it is another issue though ;). Anyone from those days remembers anything that might be worth resurrecting? cheers, Pedro. --- James P. Howard II [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Pedro F. Giffuni said:

Re: replacing GNU grep with UNIX grep.

2003-02-03 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
The classic Unix including BSD4.4 UNIX is now under a BSD-like license too (finding it is another issue though ;). Kirk McKusick sells a CD-ROM collection containing all the CSRG distributions: https://www.mckusick.com/csrg/ Pretty much everything that had to be GNUified in BSD/386 and

Re: replacing GNU grep with UNIX grep.

2003-02-03 Thread Munish Chopra
On 2003-02-03 18:51 +, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: The classic Unix including BSD4.4 UNIX is now under a BSD-like license too (finding it is another issue though ;). Kirk McKusick sells a CD-ROM collection containing all the CSRG distributions: https://www.mckusick.com/csrg/

Re: replacing GNU grep with UNIX grep.

2003-01-18 Thread Sergey Babkin
Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: FWIW; The UNIX grep executable is like 3 times smaller than GNU grep but also like 3 times slower. I think that it's said in GNU grep readme: they have knowingly chosen a faster but more memory-consuming algorithm. And I think that they've done similar choices in

replacing GNU grep with UNIX grep.

2003-01-17 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi guys; I replaced GNU grep with SCO's grep from http://unixtools.sourceforge.net . They are both covered by the same license (GPL) so there might not be any real advantage in the replacement. I haven't compared performance either. Compiling was trivial, I only had to cut and paste one function

Re: replacing GNU grep with UNIX grep.

2003-01-17 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
FWIW; The UNIX grep executable is like 3 times smaller than GNU grep but also like 3 times slower. Also .. JIC you wonder, I only built this for curiosity, I recommend keeping GNU grep unless Caldera changes the license :). Pedro.