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I'm the last… 
- Version: 1.1.1, 4/29/2003 01:18AM PST
GerryA
person to give a low score for a simple GUI wrapper, but in this case I agree that this GUI just doesn't cut it. What *would* be useful is a clever pull-down menu of grep expressions, or an assistant. I'm thinking here of PageSpinner (an HTML editor) which does not require knowledge of HTML to use. And it's excellent. So I'd urge the author of this to ask the following question: who's going to use grep? Presumably, someone who already knows it exists. They can only do that through knowing about UNIX, or through BBEdit and equivalent. So what such a person is most likely to need is not the means for using grep (BBEdit Lite, no longer supported, was *free* and still widely available) but a means for remembering and applying all the myriad different expressions and their syntax. Do something like that, and I'd pay $20, not $10!
caltonian, it doesn't… - Version: 1.1.1, 4/28/2003 09:29AM PST
JESUSJERKER
take a geek to use grep. Not to mention, almost every text editor in existence has a grep feature, and there are free ones out there. 1-star for being unnecessary.
The awkward part… - Version: 1.1.1, 4/28/2003 07:58AM PST
C. Maurer
of using grep is defining the expressions. A front end that does this would be useful, something comparable to NisusWriter's PowerFind.
The beauty of… - Version: 1.1.1, 4/28/2003 07:24AM PST
dcoshel
unix is the plethora of scripting languages, including Perl and Ruby (and CamelBones and RubyCocoa), that make writing a GUI for simple command line utilities trivial. But it's no crime to charge $10 for free software. Think of it as a voluntary stupidity tax, like PowerBall.
Invested in grep… - Version: 1.1.1, 4/28/2003 06:57AM PST
chmod007
are several thousand development hours. And it is free and available under a number of varying licenses. Then publicspace.net comes around, puts a graphical wrapper on it (<10 development hours) and charges $10 for it! While legal according to the grep licenses, I find that ethically dubious.
I WISH smartarse… - Version: 1.1.1, 4/28/2003 02:12AM PST
caltonian
geeky types would stop giving programs one-star review just because they can do the same in the terminal. Don't you get that a lot of us love Macs just because we detest command lines, so progs like this are potentially well worth 10 bucks to us! Please rate programs on how well they do what they claim to... not on how smart you need to prove yourself. Having said that, I'm giving this 5* without even trying it, just to compensate for morons like mholve with oversize egos.
$10? ROFL... It… - Version: 1.1, 4/27/2003 08:04AM PST
mholve
would take me 2.1 secs. to type this on the command line vs. all this clickety-click GUI. And for free.
