Sift - grep on steroids

# Feautures

## It's fast. really fast.

Some grep alternatives try to be fast by not searching everywhere. sift was developed with performance in mind and just is fast.

Take a look at the benchmarks for details.

## No installation

sift comes as a single executable with no dependencies and is available for all major platforms (Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD)

Need to use sift on a remote server? Just copy it over and it will work - no problems due to missing packages.

## Flexiblity. all the features you expect from a modern grep alternative.

- RegEx - perl compatible regular expression syntax (no more escape hell)

- usable defaults - basic options known from grep but with usable defaults

- multiline support - find matches spanning over multiple lines

- replace - replace output to reformat it to your needs without relying on awk/sed

- gzip files - search through normal and gzip'ed files in one program call

- multiple patterns - search for multiple patterns in one run

- target selection - select or exclude search targets based on file name, directory name, path and type

- handling big data - sift handles big files without problems: files >50GB, >5,000,000,000 lines and >5,000,000,000 matches successfully tested

- customizable - optional global and local configuration file to specify your own preferences

## Use Conditions

Doing code audits? Need to extract data from complex formats?

sift will make this much easier.