textproc/glimpse 4.18.6 NetBSD

Text search engine

System: NetBSD
Repository: pkgsrc
Maintainer: [email protected]
Last update: 2026-08-04
Commit: e282cfb26b
License: isc
Categories: textproc, databases
Package size: 394.2 KiB, 2492.9 KiB installed

Description

Glimpse (which stands for GLobal IMPlicit SEarch) is an indexing and query system that allows you to search through all your files very quickly. For example, finding 296 lines containing 'whitehouse' in 8750 files occupying 104MB took 6 seconds on a SUN Sparc 5.

Glimpse supports most of agrep's options (agrep is our powerful version of grep) including approximate matching (e.g., finding mis- spelled words), Boolean queries, and even some limited forms of regular expressions. It is used in the same way, except that you don't have to specify file names. So, if you are looking for a needle anywhere in your file system, all you have to do is say glimpse needle and all lines containing needle will appear preceded by the file name.

Install

Binary package:

pkgin install glimpse

From pkgsrc:

cd /usr/pkgsrc/textproc/glimpse && make install clean

Dependencies

Required by 1

meta-pkgs/web-server

Commit history 1

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2026-08-04

e282cfb26b

wiz

*: add LDFLAGS overide that was previously in mk

This is a workaround and should be fixed properly per-package - they should use the pkgsrc LDFLAGS, but this restores what happened before the mk/ cleanup. Fixes relro build for packages that do not honor LDFLAGS. Package list provided by mef@, thanks! Workaround commit requested by bsiegert on tech-pkg.