Re: Tool renames? was Re: First stab at glossary

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 6, 2005, 00:13 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90509051713389c62c8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509050738340.3504@evo.osdl.org>

On 9/6/05, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

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> Grepping for strings.
> 
> For example, when renaming a binary, the sane way to check that you fixed
> all users right now is
> 
>         grep old-binary-name *.c *.h *-scripts
> 
> and you catch all users.

Grep knows how to ignore binary files. Try:

   grep -I git-commit *

cheers,

martin

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