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A fast and powerful alternative to grep
Especially for interactive use (e.g. in a text editor) it would be great if sift could highlight the matches in its output.
The page https://sift-tool.org/performance compares performance to `grep` (presumably GNU grep? please clarify!), `ack`, `ag`, and `pt`. But it does not state which version of these. Now there has been a...
just try .sift.conf wanna add for ExcludePath: "abc","xxx" or ["abc","xxx"] can not add more then one options
Would it be possible to add the size of the "sliding window" of multiline matching as an option? I'm using sift to search in mulitple (hundreds) markdown files which acts...
I have a simple file that is a listing of files in directories, and execute the following sift command: >sift -e " S" files.txt And it executes as expected, but...
Currently, * `--exclude-dirs` can be passed multiple times, and can only exclude directories in the `pwd` of the `sift` process * `--exclude-ext` requires a comma-separated list, and can only be...
I'd like an option to limit the NUM of characters surrounding the match in the results. For example, currently when I'm searching for "123" inside a file: > qwerty qwertyqwerty...
I have no clue how to use github, but if you add this:  and import "github.com/pierrec/lz4", you will get huge boost to sifting speed. Here is benchmark:  1:46.13...