* 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/