A ruby version of grep?

I need a grep variant in pure ruby.

Like the unix grep.

It does not have to support many fancy things...

Colours (so the result can be colourized) and recursive searching of
files.

The rest does not matter.

Has anyone written such a class? I am asking before I write my own
version of grep.

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Try ack:

http://betterthangrep.com/

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On Nov 1, 2011, at 2:19 PM, Marc Heiler wrote:

I need a grep variant in pure ruby.

Like the unix grep.

It does not have to support many fancy things...

Colours (so the result can be colourized) and recursive searching of
files.

The rest does not matter.

Has anyone written such a class? I am asking before I write my own
version of grep.

There's rak [1], although I don't know exactly what kind of colour support you
need. If you use ruby 1.9, you may want to apply the patch described in the
pull request in rak's github page. Without it, it'll stop at the first non-
ASCII character it finds.

Stefano

[1] GitHub - danlucraft/rak: grep replacement in pure Ruby

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On Wednesday 02 November 2011 06:19:20 Marc Heiler wrote:

I need a grep variant in pure ruby.

Like the unix grep.

It does not have to support many fancy things...

Colours (so the result can be colourized) and recursive searching of
files.

The rest does not matter.

Has anyone written such a class? I am asking before I write my own
version of grep.

Hey Eric,

ack is written purely in Perl, and takes advantage of
the power of Perl's regular expressions

I am using Ruby, not Perl.

If I would use ack, in perl, then I could use grep, in C,
which is the same difference - both is not Ruby.

The reason I need it, in ruby, is because I want to connect
it to my pseudo-shell which is written in pure Ruby right now.

On Linux this may be irrelevant but my pseudo-shell shall
work on Windows too without any further downloads.

There's rak [1], although I don't know exactly what kind
of colour support you need.

Basically just ANSI Colour code.

You know, the classical XTERM escape codes:

  BLACK = "\e[0;30m"
  RED = "\e[0;31m"

If you use ruby 1.9, you may want to apply the
patch described in the pull request in rak's
github page. Without it, it'll stop at the
first non-ASCII character it finds.

Ok thanks! I checked it out, it looks really neat so far.
Also uses colours.

I think it is 98% what I am looking for ... I will play
with it intensively. :slight_smile:

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Does your grep implementation understand --color key?

$ grep --color=always MemTotal /proc/meminfo
^[[01;31m^[[KMemTotal^[[m^[[K: 8113764 kB

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On 11/02/2011 12:19 AM, Marc Heiler wrote:

Colours (so the result can be colourized) and recursive searching of
files.

Sorry about repetition but GNU grep support recursive search too:

   -R, -r, --recursive
      Read all files under each directory, recursively; this is equivalent to the -d recurse option.

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On 11/02/2011 12:19 AM, Marc Heiler wrote:

Colours (so the result can be colourized) and recursive searching of
files.

not sure how active it is.

martin

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On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Marc Heiler <shevegen@linuxmail.org> wrote:

I need a grep variant in pure ruby.

Like the unix grep.

It does not have to support many fancy things...

Colours (so the result can be colourized) and recursive searching of
files.

The rest does not matter.

Has anyone written such a class? I am asking before I write my own
version of grep.

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