Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 10:00:50 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> Cc: Tetsuro Teddy FURUYA (=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCOEVDKxsoQiAbJEJFL086GyhC?=) <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: <199911011700.KAA07548@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:37:11 CDT." <19991017163712.3911B1D95@bone.nectar.com> References: <19991017163712.3911B1D95@bone.nectar.com> <Pine.GSO.3.96.991012102820.6979B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> <19991018003944T.tfuruya@galois.tf.or.jp>
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In message <19991017163712.3911B1D95@bone.nectar.com> Jacques Vidrine writes:
: > $find . -name "*.c" -print -exec "egrep" "-i" "idt" {} \; | less
: > Here , "idt" is a search string.
:
: That's because no one wants a separate invocation of egrep for
: every file!
find . -name \*.c | xargs egrep -i idt | less
is shorter to type and will generally fork only a couple of times for
the entire source tree.
Warner
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