* David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 15:05 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > not to make a big issue out of this, but when was the last time you
> > tried to grep this way:
> >
> > grep -E "audit_rate_limit=[0-9]+ audit_backlog" */*.c
>
> Not precisely that, but I've certainly had greps fail because people
> have split up strings to meet the stupid 80-character "limit".
yes - but if you read my whole reply you'll see that i qualified it:
>> That's pretty much the only grep pattern that would break. People
>> usually grep on the constant portion of the string, so breaking up a
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> line along a variable boundary is perfectly okay.
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ingo
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