Re: Search a symbol in the source tree

[Greg Lehey]

On Tuesday, 12 October 1999 at 10:32:00 -0400, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
>
> 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.

I use etags for this, in conjunction with Emacs.  Like that, I can
position the cursor on a word, press Alt-., and it will find the
definition for me.  It will also search for all occurrences with
Alt-S.

Greg
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