[Toybox] New toy: grep

[Vladimir Pantelic]

Rob Landley wrote:
> On 02/26/2012 10:01 PM, Andre Renaud wrote:
>>  Attached is a simplistic starter implementation of the grep command.
>>  There are currently a few issues with it:
>>  1. It doesn't intelligently cope with lines that fall over a 'toybuf'
>>  read boundary. It should be stuffing the partial line back into toybuf&
>>  appending the next read to the end.
>
> That's actually a concern for me: I'd like grep to be able to handle
> unlimited-length input lines. Using toybuf for the regex might be
> reasonable, but using it for the input data is much less so...
>
> Oh, and it should probably be able to handle embedded NUL bytes.  People
> use grep and sed on executables (because they're crazy, but they do it
> anyway)...

I do that all the time, but then, I am crazy...


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