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Subject: Re: [PATCH] treewide: Fix common grammar mistake "the the"
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@toblux.com>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:37:41 +0200
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On Thu, 2024-04-11 at 17:04 +0200, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> Use `find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/\<the the\>/the/g' {} +` to find all
> occurrences of "the the" and replace them with a single "the".

I estimated that this misses at least ~50 instances split across lines:

$ git grep -ih -A1 -e 'the$'|grep -vi 'the$'|grep -E -- '^[^a-zA-Z0-9]*the =
'|wc -l
51

And a bunch that have more than one space:

$ git grep -E '\<the\s\s+the\>'|wc -l
20

So not sure you should claim "all" ;-)

johannes