On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Wendy Lin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a long standing feature request: Can the AST grep cmd be moved
> into libcmd to make it a shell built in, please? Many platforms lack
> suitable or standard (i.e. POSIX, like SunOS or AIX /bin/grep)
> conforming grep implementations and a fast, conforming and
> *accessible* grep implementation within ksh93 would be a *great* plus.
>
> Thanks for the consideration.

+1

I agree that this would be very useful. The opensolaris illumos ksh93
already has AST grep as standard builtin, bound to /usr/xpg4/bin/grep,
but to my surprise the standard ast-open distro does not.

Glenn, Roland, Olga, can you elaborate?

Irek
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