Thursday, December 08, 2011

Researchers Expanding Diff, Grep Unix Tools

Researchers Expanding Diff, Grep Unix Tools

Posted by timothy  
from the now-with-raisins dept.
itwbennett writes"At the Usenix Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference being held this week in Boston, two Dartmouth computer scientists presented variants of the grep and diff Unix command line utilities that can handle more complex types of data. The new programs, called Context-Free Grep and Hierarchical Diff, will provide the ability to parse blocks of data rather than single lines. The research has been funded in part by Google and the U.S. Energy Department."

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