Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:59:04 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Search a symbol in the source tree Message-ID: <19991012095904.A8849@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991012102820.6979B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991012102820.6979B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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In the last episode (Oct 12), Zhihui Zhang said: > 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. If you use zsh, it has a "recursive glob": grep draw_mouse **/*.c You could also use find | xargs: find . -name "*.c" | xargs grep draw_mouse Or you could use gtags/global: gtags global -gx "draw_mouse" If you're really looking for the source file that defines a symbol, global is the way to go. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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