I have long produced extraordinarily productive and useful one liners using
the old "find -blah -blah | xargs grep blah sort of pipeline.... (Say "info
finding files" if you don't know this trick.)
Now I have a new weapon in my arsenal!
The limitation of grep is that it only finds lines matching, searching
across multiple lines and searches involving nested regions are just not
doable with grep....
But sgrep can
eg.
All {..} blocks not referring to fred
sgrep '("{".."}" not containing "fred")' filename.c
All C style comments with my name.
sgrep '("/*".."*/") containing "Carter"' *.c
sgrep is available from Ubuntu synaptic or from...
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jjaakkol/sgrep.html
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Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632
PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [email protected]
New Zealand
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