devel/id-utils, or something better?

[Tim Bunce]

Getting fed up with running lots of

        find ... | xargs grep -w foo

I remembered the very handy mkid/eid/gid/lid etc set of tools I've
used several years previously. I found them in FreeBSD ports under
devel/id-utils but was disappointed (and surprised) to find the
development seemed to have stopped again in 1999 after a gap since
1996 - especially as I seem to be tripping over some bugs (relating
to default language used to parse files with no suffix).

These are great tools and it seems odd for development to have
stopped so I was wondering if perhaps something better had come
along. And if so, what?

I did find this, highlighting tha fact that FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE is using
the six year old version of the software:
    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=23140
any chance that can be actioned?

Tim.

p.s. Please accept my apologies if this email is poorly addressed