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How can I grep in source files for some text?
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Mar 15, 20266892 viewsConfidence Score0%
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At the moment I'm using two commands, I'm sure there must be a better way...
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wim@wim-acer:~/ffmpeg$ find . -name "*.h" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i invalid\ preset wim@wim-acer:~/ffmpeg$ find . -name "*.c" -print0 | xargs -0 gre…
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ack (or, on Debian/Ubuntu, ack-grep) will ignore non-source files like version control or binaries. Very useful. to search just .c and .h files, as above: the (the longer form is ) only looks at .c .h & .xs files. The full list of filetypes is viewa…
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