Thanks, John! Nice one...
And then on the more primitive however also very useful end of the
scale, there is locate (the package name varies a bit between
distros), which builds a database of filenames (usually via cron), so
that it can very quickly find files, provided some useful filename
pattern is known. This is a lot faster than find on large filesystems,
however at the expense of the flexibility that find offers.
Kind regards,
Helmut.
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, John Carter wrote:
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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