Porting BSD-licensed Text-Processing Tools from OpenBSD

FreeBSD currently uses the GNU versions of the command-line text-processing tools: grep, sort, diff, patch, sdiff. The goal of this project is to port the BSD-licensed versions of these tools from OpenBSD and optimize the performance where possible, provide standard-conformance and handling of wide character sets. The man pages also need to be revised and completed.

TODO

Overall items

grep

Item

Status

Missing --label

COMPLETED

Missing --null

COMPLETED

Missing --color / --colour

COMPLETED

Missing -D / --devices

COMPLETED

Missing -H / --with-filename

COMPLETED

Missing -J / --bz2decompress

COMPLETED

Missing -d / --directories

COMPLETED

Missing -m / --max-count

COMPLETED

Missing -o / --only-matching

COMPLETED

Missing --help

COMPLETED

Eliminate warnings

COMPLETED

Check GNU compatibility

COMPLETED

Check POSIX conformance

COMPLETED

sort

Item

Status

Missing -g / --general-numeric-sort

INCOMPLETE

Missing --help

INCOMPLETE

Missing -M / --month-sort

INCOMPLETE

Missing -S / --buffer-size

COMPLETED

Missing --version

COMPLETED

Eliminate warnings

INCOMPLETE

Check GNU compatibility

INCOMPLETE

Check POSIX conformance

INCOMPLETE

diff

Item

Status

Missing --ignore-file-name-case

BROKEN

Missing --no-ignore-file-name-case

COMPLETED

Missing --strip-trailing-cr

INCOMPLETE

Missing --normal

COMPLETED

Missing --left-column

INCOMPLETE

Missing --suppress-common-lines

INCOMPLETE

Missing --GTYPE-group-format

INCOMPLETE

Missing --line-format

INCOMPLETE

Missing --LTYPE-line-format

INCOMPLETE

Missing --tabsize

INCOMPLETE

Missing --unidirectional-new-file

INCOMPLETE

Missing --from-file

INCOMPLETE

Missing --to-file

INCOMPLETE

Missing --horizon-lines

INCOMPLETE

Missing --speed-large-files

INCOMPLETE

Missing --help

COMPLETED

Missing --ignore-blank-lines

INCOMPLETE

Missing --ignore-tab-expansion

INCOMPLETE

Missing --show-function-line

INCOMPLETE

Missing -W / --width

INCOMPLETE

Missing -y / --side-by-side

INCOMPLETE

Missing -v / --version

COMPLETED

Eliminate warnings

COMPLETED

Check GNU compatibility

INCOMPLETE

Check POSIX conformance

INCOMPLETE

GáborSoC2008 (last edited 2008-07-04 14:25:53 by GáborKövesdán)