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A fast and powerful alternative to grep
Sift and macOS 12 do not get along: ``` user@hel Desktop % sift fatal error: runtime: bsdthread_register error runtime stack: runtime.throw(0x1ed7c0, 0x21) /opt/go-1.7.1/src/runtime/panic.go:566 +0x95 fp=0x7ff7bfeff8f0 sp=0x7ff7bfeff8d0 runtime.goenvs() /opt/go-1.7.1/src/runtime/os_darwin.go:88 +0xa0 fp=0x7ff7bfeff920...
Currently, a call to swift with `echo 'abcde' | sift '(.*)c(.*)' --replace='$1\n$2'` results in `ab\nde`. Instead of a carriage return character, it includes a '\\' char followed by a 'n'...
Hello! Thanks for this great utility. Today I was trying to search for something in repos where I have binaries, archives and loads of source code, and even though the...
If I do `--exclude-dirs "subdir/subdir2"`, then the `--exclude-dirs` gets ignored. It looks like I cannot have `/` in the directory. Is this expected?
Hi! We need bz2 support. I could not find any feature requests here. Pleeeese :)
There's a configuration knob to switch this behavior, but on command line one can only enable `sift` to follow symlinks (`--follow`). Would it be feasible to add a counter-part command...
curious
Hey, just wanted to see if anyone is actually seriously replacing grep, a cornerstone tool, first released in the 70s and available, you know, everywhere, with a tool that hasnt...
when executing the command with the --color option it will not change the colors but only add the following text to the output: ←[1;31;49m ←[0;39;49m