BSD Ports

textproc/sift 0.9.0_46 DragonFly

Fast and powerful open source alternative to grep

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
GPLv3
Categories
textproc
Package size
1018.9 KiB, 2891.6 KiB installed

Description

sift has a slightly different focus than most other grep alternatives. Code search, log search / digital forensics and data processing are the main use cases, but the primary goal is to provide safe defaults and to make it easily configurable for a specific use case. Among the features are:

  • Stable releases, cross platform support
  • Safe defaults: sift searches everywhere if not configured otherwise
  • Complete & working .gitignore support
  • High performance for many uses cases
  • Support for adding custom file types to narrow down searches
  • Multiline support
  • Support for big files: >50GB, >5,000,000,000 lines and >5,000,000,000 matches successfully tested

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlytextproc/sift0.9.0_46
FreeBSDtextproc/sift0.9.2_5
NetBSDtextproc/sift0.9.0nb43

Install

Binary package:

pkg install sift

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/textproc/sift && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.