The Psychotic Network FerretSome AI coder: "I" wrote this new thing that searches for hidden strings in files.
Most youngins: Oh wow, that is so useful, I wish I had this years ago!
Us greybeards: Congratulations, you reinvented grep.
This is absolutely a subtoot.
Cue someone pointing out the code I am talking about may be running multithreaded and be faster than grep.....
Congratulations, you reinvented grep with xargs.
alys@nuintari assuming i’m thinking of the same project, as far as i can tell the one thing it does that grep and alternatives don’t is automatically check various encodings of the search strings. (although it wouldn’t surprise me if this feature exists in some open source tool already or is replicable with pipes and subprocesses.)
@alys yeah, it's basically grep -f file-of-strings-and-encodings-to-seek
... with extra steps and shitty vibe coded python