Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:39:26 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: utility idea Message-ID: <20031016193926.GB5147@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <20031016171856.GA51167@tao.thought.org> References: <20031016171856.GA51167@tao.thought.org>
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 10:18:56AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > Is there an existant utility (script) that captures the output > of grep -n and, using vi then presents the user with the list of > files that are brought at the first point where the string was > seen. E.g, if I'm recursively searching for the string "ncount" > and find several files, the script would queue up each file. > > (I seem to remember a debugging script that would do something > like this using the err output from cc, but this was years > and years ago.) > > Clues welcome, people, > > tia, > > gary I think you think of script. I.e. script /root/filename. It records everything you do afther that. It is used in the handbook in the chapter that goes about updating your FreeBSD world by compilation. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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