As a project for anyone so motivated, it would probably be helpful all
round to apply LXR (see the Linux kernel browser at http://lxr.linux.no/
- LXR is available from Source Forge at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lxr).

-- Bhaskar

On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 13:41 -0800, Jim Self wrote:
> Kevin wrote:
> >I need to actually look into each file, not just look
> >for the filenames.  I think this is done with grep.
> >But when I try to run grep with a file list of * in
> >the sourcecode directory, it tells me that the list is
> >too long.
> 
> I tried grep on the r directory from SemiViva0.4 and confirmed that a simple 
> search on *.m
> does complain of "Argument list too long", but searching on D*.m works fine, 
> for instance,
> to find "OUTX" in any routine with a name that begins with "D":
> 
> grep OUTX D*.m
> 
> You can also search the whole directory with the -r flag (recursive search of
> directories). This will also work for searching through all routines in 
> installations
> where the routines are broken out into 30 or so subdirectories. The example 
> below searches
> all files in the current directory (".") or in any subdirectory.
> 
> grep -r OUTX .
> 
> ---------------------------------------
> Jim Self
> Systems Architect, Lead Developer
> VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis
> (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself)


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