Comment 2 for bug 503670

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 503670] Re: bzr grep should be builtin

On 19 February 2010 00:21, Parth Malwankar <email address hidden> wrote:
> I noticed that lp:~vila/bzr/grep uses xarg and grep as a subprocess.
> Essentially the same as the command in comment #1. It won't work on windows.
>
> Maybe this should be a pure python solution?

I think eventually it should, but in the interim depending on an
external grep command should be ok. I would expect that it's pretty
easy to remove the dependency on xargs.

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