Grep util when ?

[SimonDevStack]

[oech3]

grep is not coreutils. But there are uutils/util-linux,sed,tar,etc...

100% drop-in for GNU grep might difficult because we probally don't want to add new project depending on onig which was archived and no reasonable alts: rust-lang/regex#1126 (comment) .
But you might able to have shebang wrapper for rg.
@BurntSushi

[SimonDevStack]

Wat. Clap is an CLI argument parser...

Excuse my poor English, I meant that clap itself isn't sufficient as in other cases and thats why regex engine is needed; to support custom expressions

[BurntSushi]

I'm not sure where the misunderstanding is, but it might help to read up on what grep is: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/grep.html

Regular expressions are the very heart of grep's functionality.

[oech3]

The sed implementation y'all have uses fancy-regex which depends on regex which is not POSIX compatible. So maybe POSIX compatibility isn't the top priority? IDK.

I didn't know that uutils/sed is not depending on oniguruma (while find,expr does)...

[theoparis]

I would love to see a uutils grep implementation as well, since some AI models (e.g. Gemini) typically shell out to grep which tends to be quite slow, and I'm not sure aliasing it to ripgrep would work due to compatibility reasons. Of course I could always tell the AI to use ripgrep, but that's not really the best solution.

[oech3]

Rust does not magically improve performance. ripgrep is fast since it avoids slow GNU extension and non-interested files.

[sylvestre]

We have sed https://github.com/uutils/sed/

I would be happy to welcome grep under the uutils umbrella

[sylvestre]

we started with awk too https://github.com/uutils/awk/

[oech3]

interesting... https://github.com/uutils/grep

[sylvestre]

you are quick ;)

[SimonDevStack]

Awesome sauce. You guys are goated!