Any fancy grep utility replacements out there?

[Peter Wang]

On Mar 18, 5:16 pm, Robert Kern <robert.k... at gmail.com> wrote:
> samsli... at gmail.com wrote:
> > So I need to recursively grep a bunch of gzipped files.  This can't be
> > easily done with grep, rgrep or zgrep.  (I'm sure given the right
> > pipeline including using the find command it could be done....but
> > seems like a hassle).
>
> > So I figured I'd find a fancy next generation grep tool.  Thirty
> > minutes of searching later I find a bunch in Perl, and even one in
> > Ruby.  But I can't find anything that interesting or up to date for
> > Python.  Does anyone know of something?
>
> I have a grep-like utility I call "grin". I wrote it mostly to recursively grep
> SVN source trees while ignoring the garbage under the .svn/ directories and more
> or less do exactly what I need most frequently without configuration. It could
> easily be extended to open gzip files with GzipFile.
>
>    https://svn.enthought.com/svn/sandbox/grin/trunk/
>
> Let me know if you have any requests.

And don't forget: Colorized output! :)


-Peter