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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
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All the features you expect from a modern grep alternative.
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RegEx - perl compatible regular expression syntax (no more escape
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hell)
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usable defaults - basic options known from grep but with usable
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defaults
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multiline support - find matches spanning over multiple lines
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replace - replace output to reformat it to your needs without
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relying on awk/sed
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gzip files - search through normal and gzip'ed files in one program
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call
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multiple patterns - search for multiple patterns in one run
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target selection - select or exclude search targets based on file
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name, directory name, path and type
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handling big data - sift handles big files without problems: files
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>50GB, >5,000,000,000 lines and >5,000,000,000 matches successfully
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tested
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