CVS commit: pkgsrc/textproc/sift

["Thomas Klausner" <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   wiz
Date:           Sun Dec 27 20:50:40 UTC 2015

Added Files:
        pkgsrc/textproc/sift: DESCR Makefile PLIST distinfo

Log Message:
Import sift-0.6.0 as textproc/sift.

All the features you expect from a modern grep alternative.

RegEx - perl compatible regular expression syntax (no more escape
hell)

usable defaults - basic options known from grep but with usable
defaults

multiline support - find matches spanning over multiple lines
replace - replace output to reformat it to your needs without
relying on awk/sed

gzip files - search through normal and gzip'ed files in one program
call

multiple patterns - search for multiple patterns in one run
target selection - select or exclude search targets based on file
name, directory name, path and type

handling big data - sift handles big files without problems: files
>50GB, >5,000,000,000 lines and >5,000,000,000 matches successfully
tested


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r0 -r1.1 pkgsrc/textproc/sift/DESCR \
    pkgsrc/textproc/sift/Makefile pkgsrc/textproc/sift/PLIST \
    pkgsrc/textproc/sift/distinfo

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.