Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 06:46:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 06:46:35 -0400 Received: from james.kalifornia.com ([208.179.59.2]:8504 "EHLO james.kalifornia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 06:46:16 -0400 Message-ID: <3AE2A7B9.10401@kalifornia.com> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 02:43:21 -0700 From: Ben Ford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-14 i686; en-US; rv:0.8.1+) Gecko/20010420 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: CML2 Subject: Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system In-Reply-To: <200104220147.f3M1l2v126874@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Albert D. Cahalan wrote: >>>> Find . -name "*Some-Name*" -type f -print | xargs grep 'Some-Info' >>>> Hate answering with just one line of credible info , But . >>>> >>>The above would grep every file. It takes 1 minute and 9.5 seconds. >>>So the distributed maintainer information does not scale well at all. >>> >>No it doesn't. It allows you to search for files of a specific naming >>pattern and greps those. So if you needed to know the maintainers of all >>the config.in files, you say: >> >>find . -name "*onfig.in" -type f -print | xargs grep 'P: ' >> > >That was an easy problem, and try it to see all the bad matches! >This would be more normal: > >find . -type f | xargs egrep -i8 '^[^A-Z]*[A-Z]: .*(net|ip|tcp|eth|ppp)' > >That is not a nice and easy command for most people, and if it >isn't exactly right you just wasted over a minute. > Eric *has* offered to write tools to simplify this. I would guess that it would be something like: kgrep [-t description] [-p person] [-m mailto] [-l mailing-list] [-w webpage] [-c config symbol] [-d date] [-s status] -b -- Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data Guess which has occurred. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Patched Micro$oft servers are secure today . . . but tomorrow is another story! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/