dumbgrep

A Python implementation of grep, which can be used as a template for CLI tools.

Accompanying article: Recreating grep in Python (working title).

Usage:

$ dumbgrep existence </tmp/war-and-peace.txt
in this part of the house and did not even know of the existence of
even wish to know of his existence but would now have been offended
[...]
$ dumbgrep -h
usage: __init__.py [-h] [-v] [--max-count MAX_COUNT] pattern

A replacement for grep.

positional arguments:
  pattern               the pattern to search for

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v                    invert matches
  --max-count MAX_COUNT, -m MAX_COUNT
                        max number of matches to print

Installation

Why would you want to do that, you mad, silly person?

Anyway, if you really want to, clone the repository and run pip3 install .. You should then be able to run dumbgrep from the CLI.