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by spinax 1697 days ago
Some of these line items are really obtuse and in some cases just not right, "Don't search in binary files" and "Treat binary files as if they were text" for example caught my eye - GNU grep has the `--binary-files` option which supports both of these features. Others like "can pipe output to a pager" seem like a half-hearted attempt to give a +1 to a specific tool while ignoring that you can... pipe the output of any of them using... a pipe.
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If you follow the "If you have updates to the chart, please submit as a GitHub issue." link, you can see that there are a few dozen open issues and the page was last updated 2 years ago.
Ahhh, I did not (my bad) - I don't track grep features, not a hobby :) this chart could have been more truthy 2 years ago for all I know. Thanks.
If there are things you think are confusing or inaccurate, please do make GitHub issues for them. Thanks.
Maybe we need a (2019) in the title.
Or maybe I just need to move it up in my priority stack.