UNIX shell tools

[Ulli Horlacher]

I have written some UNIX shell tools which substitute or extend the
classical tools:

http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/fstools/

For example fpg is a grep which accepts perl regexp.
As a perl programmer, I am always confused which regexp syntax other
programs have. I want perl regexps everywhere

My own most used tools are:

l list files
clp command line perl
fpg perl grep
zz generic clipboard
xx generic internet clipboard

Maybe you are interested.

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Ullrich Horlacher Informationssysteme und Serverbetrieb
Rechenzentrum IZUS/TIK E-Mail: (e-mail address removed)-stuttgart.de
Universitaet Stuttgart Tel: ++49-711-68565868
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70550 Stuttgart (Germany) WWW: http://www.tik.uni-stuttgart.de/

 

[Dr.Ruud]

I have written some UNIX shell tools which substitute or extend the
classical tools:

http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/fstools/

For example fpg is a grep which accepts perl regexp.
As a perl programmer, I am always confused which regexp syntax other
programs have. I want perl regexps everywhere

Many greps support -P (for PCRE), but since 'ack' I hardly ever use grep
anymore.

For example, to find issues in a full code base:

ack -a '^\s*return [^!(]\S* or\b'

which with grep would (be slow and) look like:

grep -rP '^\s*return [^!(]\S* or\b' .

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To install ack:

cpan App::Ack

http://beyondgrep.com/install/

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For speed, I also use 'git grep' a lot.

git grep -P '^\s*return [^!(]\S* or\b'

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q="git+grep"

 

[Damien Wyart]

Many greps support -P (for PCRE), but since 'ack' I hardly ever use
grep anymore.

There is also ag, which is often noticeably faster than ack:
https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher