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Meh, yet another grep tool.... wait, by burntsushi! Whenever I hear of someone wanting to improve grep I think of the classic ridiculous fish piece[0]. But when

Meh, yet another grep tool.... wait, by burntsushi! Whenever I hear of someone wanting to improve grep I think of the classic ridiculous fish piece[0]. But when I saw that this one was by the author of rust's regex tools, which I know from a previous post on here, are quite sophisticated, I perked up. Also, the tool aside, this blog post should be held up as the gold standard of what gets posted to hacker news: detailed, technical, interesting. Thanks for your hard work! Looking forward to taking this for a spin. [0] http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/old-age-and-treachery.html http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/old-age-and-treachery.h...

trishume 10y ago
Totally agree. This is like burntsushi's technical tour de force, the culmination of years of work building up a stack of technology leading up to this utility and article. It's a simple tool, but he's built every piece from the ground up to be the very best, and then documented the shit out of it. So cool.
pohl 10y ago
Another burntsushi project was recently posted, but didn't get much attention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12559515 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12559515
- skanga 10y ago
  Looks interesting. But I did not find binaries for it and do not want to setup a rust env to try it out.
  - luckman212 10y ago
    The releases are right there on GitHub: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases
    - burntsushi 10y ago
      I think the GP was asking about xsv, not ripgrep. There are binary releases for xsv though: https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv/releases https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv/releases
      - skanga 10y ago
        Awesome. Thanks
        skanga 10y ago
        PS: You might want to revise this verbiage in the README markdown file: Installing xsv is a bit hokey right now. Ideally, I could release binaries for Linux, Mac and Windows. Currently, I'm only able to release binaries for Linux because I don't know how to cross compile Rust programs.
        burntsushi 10y ago
        Ah how embarrassing! I will fix that soon. Thanks :-)
        skanga 10y ago
        No need for any embarrassment. I should have looked for releases instead of only looking at the doc.

trishume 10y ago

Totally agree. This is like burntsushi's technical tour de force, the culmination of years of work building up a stack of technology leading up to this utility and article. It's a simple tool, but he's built every piece from the ground up to be the very best, and then documented the shit out of it. So cool.

pohl 10y ago

Another burntsushi project was recently posted, but didn't get much attention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12559515 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12559515

skanga 10y ago
Looks interesting. But I did not find binaries for it and do not want to setup a rust env to try it out.
- luckman212 10y ago
  The releases are right there on GitHub: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases
  - burntsushi 10y ago
    I think the GP was asking about xsv, not ripgrep. There are binary releases for xsv though: https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv/releases https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv/releases
    - skanga 10y ago
      Awesome. Thanks
      - skanga 10y ago
        PS: You might want to revise this verbiage in the README markdown file: Installing xsv is a bit hokey right now. Ideally, I could release binaries for Linux, Mac and Windows. Currently, I'm only able to release binaries for Linux because I don't know how to cross compile Rust programs.
        burntsushi 10y ago
        Ah how embarrassing! I will fix that soon. Thanks :-)
        skanga 10y ago
        No need for any embarrassment. I should have looked for releases instead of only looking at the doc.