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

On 9/6/05, Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

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.

Grep knows how to ignore binary files. Try:

   grep -I git-commit *

cheers,


martin