Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 08:46:32 -0700 From: "Scott Hess" <scott@avantgo.com> To: <n@nectar.com> Cc: <ht5t-fry@asahi-net.or.jp>, <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, <nectar@nectar.com> Subject: Re: Search a symbol in the source tree Message-ID: <172501bf197f$f37008d0$1e80000a@avantgo.com> References: <19991017163712.3911B1D95@bone.nectar.com> <19991018031731U.tfuruya@galois.tf.or.jp>
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Of course, this is probably more efficiently run as 'find . -name
"*.c" -print | xargs egrep -i idt | less'. If you have interesting
filenames (containing spaces, for instance), you'll probably want to
use -print0 and whichever -0 to xargs.
zsh users can often use 'egrep -i idt **/*.c', but that doesn't work so
well if you have too many matches for the command-line to handle.
[Yes, anything like this is "slow" for some definition of the word "slow".
On a particular source tree I frequently work with, the *.c files contain
256klines of code, and running a find/xargs egrep on them takes 11s on the
first run - and <1s on the second. Quite sufficient if you tend to do most
of your work in a single module and only periodically need to foray onto
unfamiliar terrain...]
Later,
scott
----- Original Message -----
From: <Tetsuro Teddy FURUYA (古谷 哲郎)
<ht5t-fry@asahi-net.or.jp>)>
To: <n@nectar.com>
Cc: <ht5t-fry@asahi-net.or.jp>; <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>;
<freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>; <nectar@nectar.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 1999 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: Search a symbol in the source tree
> From: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>
> Subject: Re: Search a symbol in the source tree
> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:37:11 -0500
> n> On 18 October 1999 at 0:39, Tetsuro Teddy FURUYA
(=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCOEVDKxsoQiAbJEJFL086GyhC?=) <ht5t-fry@asahi-net.or.jp>
wrote:
> n> > It seems queer to me that there has been none who has refered to
> n> > find - exec
> n> > pairs.
> n> >
> n> > You may type into shell like;
> n> > $find . -name "*.c" -print -exec "egrep" "-i" "idt" {} \; | less
> n> > Here , "idt" is a search string.
> n>
> n> That's because no one wants a separate invocation of egrep for
> n> every file!
> ^^^^^^
> Probably, except me !
>
> But, what various and interesting methods to search symbols there are !
>
> If we do not restrict the usage of search method, there might be
> yet another methods.
>
> Teddy Furuya <ht5t-fry@asahi-net.or.jp>
>
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