===== Porting BSD-licensed Text-Processing Tools from OpenBSD =====

%%FreeBSD%% currently uses the GNU versions of the command-line text-processing tools: grep, sort, diff, patch, sdiff. The goal of this project is to port the BSD-licensed versions of these tools from %%OpenBSD%% and optimize the performance where possible, provide standard-conformance and handling of wide character sets. The man pages also need to be revised and completed.

===== BSD grep =====

Please see [[KyleEvans/BSDgrep|BSDgrep]] and [[KyleEvans/Regex|Regex]] pages.

===== sort =====

Has been rewritten from scratch. There are some missing features. Performance is the major issue.

===== diff =====

^ Item ^ Status ^
| Missing --ignore-file-name-case | COMPLETED |
| Missing --no-ignore-file-name-case | COMPLETED |
| Missing --strip-trailing-cr | COMPLETED |
| Missing --normal | COMPLETED |
| Missing --tabsize | INCOMPLETE |
| Missing --unidirectional-new-file | COMPLETED |
| Missing --from-file | COMPLETED |
| Missing --to-file | COMPLETED |
| Missing --help | COMPLETED |
| Missing --ignore-blank-lines | INCOMPLETE |
| Missing --ignore-tab-expansion | INCOMPLETE |
| Missing -v / --version | COMPLETED |
| Eliminate warnings | COMPLETED |
| Comment the code | INCOMPLETE |
| Check GNU compatibility | INCOMPLETE |
| Check POSIX conformance | COMPLETED |