On Mar 18, 5:16 pm, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So I need to recursively grep a bunch of gzipped files. This can't be > > easily done with grep, rgrep or zgrep. (I'm sure given the right > > pipeline including using the find command it could be done....but > > seems like a hassle). > > > So I figured I'd find a fancy next generation grep tool. Thirty > > minutes of searching later I find a bunch in Perl, and even one in > > Ruby. But I can't find anything that interesting or up to date for > > Python. Does anyone know of something? > > I have a grep-like utility I call "grin". I wrote it mostly to recursively > grep > SVN source trees while ignoring the garbage under the .svn/ directories and > more > or less do exactly what I need most frequently without configuration. It could > easily be extended to open gzip files with GzipFile. > > https://svn.enthought.com/svn/sandbox/grin/trunk/ > > Let me know if you have any requests.
And don't forget: Colorized output! :) -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
