From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 12 8: 0:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from bantu.cl.msu.edu (bantu.cl.msu.edu [35.8.3.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D777C1515F for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 08:00:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dervish@bantu.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from dervish@localhost) by bantu.cl.msu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA34683; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:59:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dervish) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:59:11 -0400 From: bush doctor To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Search a symbol in the source tree Message-ID: <19991012105911.A34544@bantu.cl.msu.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Zhihui Zhang on Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 10:32:00AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 35 95 F8 63 DA 5B 32 51 8F A9 AC 3C B4 74 F3 BA WWW-Home-Page: http://www.msu.edu/~ikhala Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Out of da blue Zhihui Zhang aka (zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) said: > > Can anyone suggest me a way of searching symbols in the entire /usr/src > tree? I normally use grep */*. But grep does not work recursively, right? > Something like a small shell script may do this. Thanks a lot. Have you taken a look at global, gtags, or htags. They are part of the base system. Also 'http://lxr.linux.no/freebsd/source' is rather helpful ... > > -Zhihui > > > #:^) -- So ya want ta here da roots? Dem that feels it knows it ... bush doctor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message