Anselm R Garbe dixit (2010-03-03, 18:55): > On 3 March 2010 18:33, Chris Palmer <ch...@noncombatant.org> wrote: > > Kurt H Maier writes: > > > >> > We need a desktop text indexing system that sucks less. > >> > >> grep > > > > First of all, I had never heard of this program. It is so great! Wow! Thanks > > for the suggestion! In 45 minutes when my query has completed, I'll buy you > > a beer. I assume you prefer Coors Lite? > > > > Second, the newly-discovered grep program is horrible bloatware. 78KB on my > > system (the stali version will be larger due to static linking), when a > > simple awk script would suffice for the same purpose? Man, the people > > writing this new bleeding-edge software sure have no conception of the > > beauty of simplicity that reigned in the old days. > > Stali's grep is smaller than your bloated 78kb dynamic executable, see > attached. It's 63kb actually and runs on all x86 linux platforms.
Cool, seems like it's got secret netcat functionality built in: $ strings /tmp/grep | /tmp/grep -i network Machine is not on the network Name not unique on network Network is down Network is unreachable Network dropped connection on reset and valuable Xenix support: Not a XENIX named type file No XENIX semaphores available :) -- [a]
