Quoting Dave Vehrs (2021-12-23 21:25:11) > On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 04:06:46PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > I notice that podget depends on grep. > > > > An alternative to grep, ugrep, should be radically faster and should > > support command-line options of GNU grep, so I encourage testing if > > it works as a drop-in replacement - with a speed gain.
> Interesting idea. However Podget is also built for other operating
> systems. I can see ugrep packages for FreeBSD and OpenBSD but not for
> NetBSD. There also appear to be problems with the MacOS version and
> making sure it's dependencies are installed. Don't think this will be
> a drop-in replacement given where we expect Podget to work.
What I had in mind was not _replace_ with ugrep but do graceful fallback
to also work when only classic grep is available - something like this:
if command -v ugrep; then
alias grep = 'ugrep -G'
alias fgrep = 'ugrep -F'
else
alias fgrep = 'grep -F'
fi
...and then replace instances of "grep --fixed-strings" and "grep -F"
with "fgrep".
(above is untested! Also, I am not familiar with *BSD, and it could be
simplified slightly if those system provide fgrep)
Key details on ugrep:
https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep#grep
https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep#performance-results
Kind regards,
- Jonas
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