Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:03:43 +0100 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: Profanity in the Linux Kernel?!?!? |
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Hi Arvind.
>>>> cd /usr/src/linux ; grep -i fuck `find . -name '*.[ch]'`
>>> Why not:
>>> find /usr/src/linux -name '*.[ch]' -exec grep -i fuck {} \;
>> It doesn't work on my system, for starters. However, the following >> variant works...
>> Q> find /usr/src/linux/ -name '*.[ch]' -exec grep -i fuck '{}' \;
> While we're being pedantic, notice that the last form won't work > if /usr/src/linux happens to be a symlink.
On my system, /usr/src/linux IS a SymLink, and the above works fine.
> So
> cd /usr/src/linux && find . -type f -a \! -name \*.o > -a \! -name \*.a -a \! -name vmlin\* | xargs grep -i fuck
> ...would be slightly better.
What on earth for!!! It doesn't even begin to match the original command and its aims.
> Also, note that there is no reason why Makefile's and > Config.in's etc etc can't contain `fuck'.
Note also that the sequence 'fuck' is a valid compression sequence that could easily be generated by gzip when it compresses the code. Your command will quite happily report it as well...
Best wishes from Riley.
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