Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 02:14:13 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Search a symbol in the source tree Message-ID: <38036C65.D5B1BD3E@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991012102820.6979B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > 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. find /usr/src -name \*.\[ch] -print | xargs grep pattern or similar. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "I always feel generous when I'm in the inner circle of a conspiracy to subvert the world order and, with a small group of allies, just defeated an alien invasion. Maybe I should value myself a little more?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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