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Sift - grep on steroids

0.9.0

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This package was approved by moderator gep13 on 9/1/2019.

Feautures

It's fast. really fast.

Some grep alternatives try to be fast by not searching everywhere. sift was developed with performance in mind and just is fast.
Take a look at the benchmarks for details.

No installation

sift comes as a single executable with no dependencies and is available for all major platforms (Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD)
Need to use sift on a remote server? Just copy it over and it will work - no problems due to missing packages.

Flexiblity. all the features you expect from a modern grep alternative.

RegEx - perl compatible regular expression syntax (no more escape hell)
usable defaults - basic options known from grep but with usable defaults
multiline support - find matches spanning over multiple lines
replace - replace output to reformat it to your needs without relying on awk/sed
gzip files - search through normal and gzip'ed files in one program call
multiple patterns - search for multiple patterns in one run
target selection - select or exclude search targets based on file name, directory name, path and type
handling big data - sift handles big files without problems: files >50GB, >5,000,000,000 lines and >5,000,000,000 matches successfully tested
customizable - optional global and local configuration file to specify your own preferences

Use Conditions

Doing code audits? Need to extract data from complex formats?
sift will make this much easier.
You may specify various conditions and only get matches.
- preceded by A
- followed by B within X lines
- if the file also contains a line with C
- if the file contains D in the first Y lines
- any combination of the available conditions

To install Sift - grep on steroids, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

C:\> choco install sift

To upgrade Sift - grep on steroids, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

C:\> choco upgrade sift

Files

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Tools\ChocolateyInstall.ps1 Show

$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop';

$packageName = 'Sift'
$toolsDir   = "$(Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)"
$url        = 'https://sift-tool.org/downloads/sift/sift_0.9.0_windows_386.zip'
$url64      = 'https://sift-tool.org/downloads/sift/sift_0.9.0_windows_amd64.zip'

$packageArgs = @{
  packageName   = $packageName
  unzipLocation = $toolsDir
  url           = $url
  url64bit      = $url64

  checksum      = '4602ccc73d661b211dafcf338f71cd0c8454e5d1b56bb01512661555baae8b91'
  checksumType  = 'sha256'
  checksum64    = 'cd69d0c8dc5b6ef7911bc2bacdc329ec6ee703c72c5e81d91100cdd53fa33c13'
  checksumType64= 'sha256'
}

Install-ChocolateyZipPackage @packageArgs

Virus Scan Results

Sift.0.9.0.nupkg (dbda2687b990) - ## / 56 - Log in or click on link to see number of positives
sift.exe (945a038e96ef) - ## / 57 - Log in or click on link to see number of positives
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sift_0.9.0_windows_amd64.zip (cd69d0c8dc5b) - ## / 56 - Log in or click on link to see number of positives
sift_0.9.0_windows_386.zip (4602ccc73d66) - ## / 56 - Log in or click on link to see number of positives

In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).

Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.

Dependencies

This package has no dependencies.

Package Maintainer(s)

jivkok

Software Author(s)

Sven Taute

Release Notes

https://github.com/svent/sift/releases

Version History

Version	Downloads	Last updated	Status
Sift - grep on steroids 0.9.0	1961	Sunday, October 23, 2016	approved
Sift - grep on steroids 0.8.0	285	Tuesday, September 13, 2016	approved

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