is an alternative to grep that aims for both speed and flexibility (written in Go).
| README.md (sift-0.8.0) | : | README.md (sift-0.9.0) |
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| # sift | | # sift |
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| A fast and powerful open source alternative to grep. | | A fast and powerful open source alternative to grep. |
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| | ## Features |
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| | sift has a slightly different focus than most other grep alternatives. Code sear |
| | ch, log search / digital forensics and data processing are the main use cases, b |
| | ut the primary goal is to provide safe defaults and to make it easily configurab |
| | le for a specific use case. Among the features are: |
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| | * Stable releases, cross platform support |
| | * Safe defaults: sift searches everywhere if not configured otherwise |
| | * Complete & working .gitignore support |
| | * High [performance](https://sift-tool.org/performance) for many uses cases |
| | * Support for adding custom file types to narrow down searches |
| | * Multiline support |
| | * Support for big files: >50GB, >5,000,000,000 lines and >5,000,000,000 matches |
| | successfully tested |
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| | Sift allows easy customization. |
| | Example: Configure sift to |
| | * Ignore case |
| | * Show line numbers |
| | * Skip binary files |
| | * Respect .gitignore files: |
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| | ```sift -i -n --binary-skip --git --write-config``` |
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| | The configuration can be overridden for specific directories. |
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| | sift understands **conditions** to process complex formats or support code audit |
| | s. |
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| | Example: Search for ```.php``` files containing a call to mysql_query, that is p |
| | receded by ```$_GET``` or ```$_POST``` (accessing external input), but the prece |
| | ding 5 lines do not contain a call to an escape function: |
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| | ```sift -x php mysql_query --preceded-within "5:_(GET|POST)" --not-preceded-with |
| | in "5:escape"``` |
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| Please go to [sift-tool.org](https://sift-tool.org) for more information. | | Please go to [sift-tool.org](https://sift-tool.org) for more information. |
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| ## Installation | | ## Installation |
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| ### Download Binaries | | ### Download Binaries |
| You can download binaries for the current version at https://sift-tool.org/downl
oad. | | You can download binaries for the current version at https://sift-tool.org/downl
oad. |
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| sift is available for Linux, Windows, OS X and *BSD. | | sift is available for Linux, Windows, OS X and *BSD. |
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| ### Install from Package Repositories | | ### Install from Package Repositories |
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