Re: agrep (was: Re: how to verify a vulnerability is closed)

[Dag Wieers <dag wieers com>]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, nathan r. hruby wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Craig White wrote:
> 
> > and I am too dumb to figure out the difference between grep and egrep.
> > When the agrep curveball came through this list, and the juju stuff it
> > outputs, I want to know more.
> 
> Ed is right... agrep is not part of RHEL, nor is it GPL compatible (though
> I'd maintain it is Free enough.. The license is one of those academic
> things.
> 
> The best description of agrep is the manpage:
> http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/agrep.html
> 
> It's very cool stuff.  There's a very old rpm at ftp.redhat.com in the
> contrib/libc6 tree.. the src.rpm rebuilds nicely on RHEL and that's what
> I've been using.  Link to source availible here:
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/agrep

I've added it to my repository, if you have some other basic tools like 
this, let me know.

Kind regards,
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