% Rgrep -- reinventing the recursive grep wheel % David Parsons % Wed Jan 16 07:25:48 PST 2008 #Rgrep **Rgrep** is a clone of the [SLang](http://www.s-lang.org/)-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](rgrep-0.05.tar.gz)= The first release, warts and all.