Rgrep

Rgrep is a clone of the SLang-based rgrep that ships with the jed text editor. It was written when I tried to port the SLang editor to a modern Linux distribution and was thwarted because the pre-packaged copies of the library were not complete enough to actually run the program.

Rgrep implements most of the functionality of the reference program, lacking only {min,max} and \d in the regular expression language and the long options --version and --help. It uses Henry Spencer’s BSD-regex library (slightly modified to more closely resemble the SLang regular expression language) to provide a slow, but functional, recursive grep.

Source Code

v0.05
The first release, warts and all.