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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sep 5, 2005, 14:41 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509050738340.3504@evo.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <200509050054.j850sC3D023778@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl>

On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Horst von Brand wrote:

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> > I had the same opinion.  The counter-argument people raised when
> > this topic came up on the list was that it would help grepping
> > in the source tree.
> 
> Grepping for what?

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.

In contrast, "grep *" will catch totally uninteresting patterns like object files etc.

I personally find that very useful, and I don't see _any_ point to naming by what _kind_ of interpreter you use. Why would _anybody_ care whether something is written in perl vs shell? There's no reason to name things by the interpreter.

		Kubys