| Port details on branch 2026Q2 |
- sift Fast and powerful open source alternative to grep
- 0.9.1_9 textproc
=0 0.9.1_9Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. - Maintainer: sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 - 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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- 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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- Dependencies
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- Build dependencies:
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- go125 : lang/go125
- Fetch dependencies:
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- go125 : lang/go125
- There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:
- No options to configure
- Options name:
- textproc_sift
- USES:
- go:modules zip
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