http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2004/04/03/alias-grepglark/ My opinions only. I do not represent any organization in this publication. Sat, 12 May 2012 23:12:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2004/04/03/alias-grepglark/#comment-112175 2004 April Fools – Mike Linksvayer Sun, 22 Apr 2012 02:01:23 +0000 //?p=#comment-112175 [...] alias grep=’glark’ advocates using glark, an enhanced grep (a command line tool for matching and displaying text in files against a match pattern) written in Ruby. But there’s no reason to install yet another slow scripting language that you don’t want (unless you already depend on it, but even then you might not in the future). Instead: export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto --perl-regexp' [...] [...] alias grep=’glark’ advocates using glark, an enhanced grep (a command line tool for matching and displaying text in files against a match pattern) written in Ruby. But there’s no reason to install yet another slow scripting language that you don’t want (unless you already depend on it, but even then you might not in the future). Instead: export GREP_OPTIONS='–color=auto –perl-regexp' [...]

]]> http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2004/04/03/alias-grepglark/#comment-28 Lucas Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:36:38 +0000 //?p=#comment-28 Great find. Lack of perl-compatible regexs is a glaring problem with grep. I find myself doing `perl -e /regex/ -` way too often. 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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