From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 13 15: 6:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (border.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7F7414E9F for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:06:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <40323>; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 07:34:25 +1000 Content-return: prohibited Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 07:38:21 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: Search a symbol in the source tree To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Message-Id: <99Oct14.073425est.40323@border.alcanet.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:32:00 -0400 (EDT), Zhihui Zhang wrote: >Can anyone suggest me a way of searching symbols in the entire /usr/src >tree? I use id-utils (/usr/ports/devel/id-utils). It builds a single database file and has a variety of tools (including e-lisp) to search the database. Since global(1) was mentioned in this threaad, I decided to have a look at it. It seems much slower and my sample (samba-2.0.5a) database was nearly 20 times larger. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message