Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ulowell!apollo!perry
From: perry@apollo.COM (Jim Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: grep vs. SEARCH (Was Re: Software Development Tools)
Keywords: VMS UNIX tools grep
Message-ID: <42c41685.183dc@apollo.COM>
Date: 21 Apr 89 14:38:00 GMT
References: <401@bionov.UUCP> <425a7504.138a5@hw-allen.UUCP> <328@uncw.UUCP> <1908@edison.GE.COM> <345@uncw.UUCP> <2797@titan.camcon.co.uk>
Reply-To: perry@apollo.COM (Jim Perry)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In article <2797@titan.camcon.co.uk> igp@camcon.co.uk (Ian Phillipps) writes:
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>egrep '^[a-z0-9_]([a-z_0-9]*[ 	])*([a-z_0-9]+)[ 	]*\([a-z_0-9 	,]*\)[ 	]*{?[ 	]*(\/\*.*)?$' "$@"
>
This was great, but you left out the :-).

Seriously, why do these discussions always come down to trying to compare
two systems (grep/search, vms/unix...) as if there were a binary answer to
which is better?  How about acknowledging that we've still got a long way
to go in this business and comparing good and bad features for the next
spin?  (If you think the above incantation is the best, or even a good and
useful, way of finding C function definitions, nevermind).  
-- 
Jim Perry   perry@apollo.com    Apollo Computer, Chelmsford MA
This particularly rapid unintelligible patter isn't generally heard
and if it is it doesn't matter.