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Port details on branch 2026Q2
sift Fast and powerful open source alternative to grep
0.9.1_9 textproc on this many watch lists=0 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 0.9.1_9Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: sunpoet@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-04-10 17:07:00
Last Update: 2026-06-03 18:00:48
Commit Hash: 3d69120
License: GPLv3
WWW:
https://github.com/svent/sift
Description:
sift has a slightly different focus than most other grep alternatives. Code search, log search / digital forensics and data processing are the main use cases, but the primary goal is to provide safe defaults and to make it easily configurable for a specific use case. Among the features are: - Stable releases, cross platform support - Safe defaults: sift searches everywhere if not configured otherwise - Complete & working .gitignore support - High performance for many uses cases - Support for adding custom file types to narrow down searches - Multiline support - Support for big files: >50GB, >5,000,000,000 lines and >5,000,000,000 matches successfully tested
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Manual pages:
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pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. bin/sift
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/sift-0.9.1_9/catalog.mk
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/sift-0.9.1_9/LICENSE
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/sift-0.9.1_9/GPLv3
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
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Dependency lines:
  • sift>0:textproc/sift
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/textproc/sift/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install textproc/sift
  • pkg install sift
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: sift
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1759774547 SHA256 (go/textproc_sift/sift-v0.9.1/v0.9.1.mod) = 617c8941bbd68814e02fb4dcfb5210b2439fe6ce9b409e7a5ae1a245e75aeb52 SIZE (go/textproc_sift/sift-v0.9.1/v0.9.1.mod) = 299

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SHA256 (go/textproc_sift/sift-v0.9.1/v0.9.1.zip) = bda23d45f1e7492fb0ae4f45aec2a6ec86f0ea2147b3b149536284be78edd65c SIZE (go/textproc_sift/sift-v0.9.1/v0.9.1.zip) = 46770

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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. go125 : lang/go125
Fetch dependencies:
  1. go125 : lang/go125
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
textproc_sift
USES:
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  1. https://proxy.golang.org/github.com/svent/sift/@v/
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Number of commits found: 3

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
0.9.1_9
03 Jun 2026 18:00:48
commit hash: 3d69120c306222a137dfeae569a2da22bc33239ccommit hash: 3d69120c306222a137dfeae569a2da22bc33239ccommit hash: 3d69120c306222a137dfeae569a2da22bc33239ccommit hash: 3d69120c306222a137dfeae569a2da22bc33239c files touched by this commit
Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des) search for other commits by this committer
various: Bump go ports for go-1.25.11 / go-1.26.4
0.9.1_8
09 May 2026 17:30:33
commit hash: a67ac1c1ac354b79ab6fab7d07a32be91e2c3654commit hash: a67ac1c1ac354b79ab6fab7d07a32be91e2c3654commit hash: a67ac1c1ac354b79ab6fab7d07a32be91e2c3654commit hash: a67ac1c1ac354b79ab6fab7d07a32be91e2c3654 files touched by this commit
Adam Weinberger (adamw) search for other commits by this committer
various: Bump ports for Go 1.25.10
0.9.1_7
10 Apr 2026 16:19:03
commit hash: 9c91901491db265de51255eeec8093989f724305commit hash: 9c91901491db265de51255eeec8093989f724305commit hash: 9c91901491db265de51255eeec8093989f724305commit hash: 9c91901491db265de51255eeec8093989f724305 files touched by this commit
Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des) search for other commits by this committer
various: Bump go ports for go-1.25.9 / 1.26.2

Number of commits found: 3