alias grep=’glark’

Glark has improved my life.

A replacement for (or supplement to) the grep family, glark offers: Perl compatible regular expressions, highlighting of matches, context around matches, complex expressions (“and” and “or”), and automatic exclusion of non-text files.

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One Response to “alias grep=’glark’”

  1. Lucas says:
    2004-06-10 at 9:36

    Great find. Lack of perl-compatible regexs is a glaring problem with grep. I find myself doing `perl -e /regex/ -` way too often.

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