A fast and powerful open source alternative to grep.

Please go to sift-tool.org for more information.

You can download binaries for the current version at https://sift-tool.org/download.

sift is available for Linux, Windows, OS X and *BSD.

Download and install the binary from http://sift-tool.org/download:

$ yaourt -S sift-bin

Or build and install sift from source at https://github.com/svent/sift:

$ yaourt -S sift

Using Homebrew:

$ brew install sift

If you have a working go environment, you can install sift using "go get":

go get github.com/svent/sift

If there is a feature or option you would like to see in sift, please open an issue and describe what you are missing. Where possible, please include an example (input file, expected output etc.) to better convey your idea.

If you found a bug, please check the open issues and the limitations and restrictions described in the documentation. If you cannot find any documentation about it, please open a new issue, name the sift version you used and describe the steps to reproduce the problem.

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Sven Taute

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.