Re: Profanity in the Linux Kernel?!?!?

Riley Williams (rhw@MemAlpha.CX)
Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:03:43 +0100 (GMT)


Hi Arvind.

>>>> cd /usr/src/linux ; grep -i fuck `find . -name '*.[ch]'`

>>> Why not:

>>> find /usr/src/linux -name '*.[ch]' -exec grep -i fuck {} \;

>> It doesn't work on my system, for starters. However, the following
>> variant works...

>> Q> find /usr/src/linux/ -name '*.[ch]' -exec grep -i fuck '{}' \;

> While we're being pedantic, notice that the last form won't work
> if /usr/src/linux happens to be a symlink.

On my system, /usr/src/linux IS a SymLink, and the above works fine.

> So

> cd /usr/src/linux && find . -type f -a \! -name \*.o
> -a \! -name \*.a -a \! -name vmlin\* | xargs grep -i fuck

> ...would be slightly better.

What on earth for!!! It doesn't even begin to match the original
command and its aims.

> Also, note that there is no reason why Makefile's and
> Config.in's etc etc can't contain `fuck'.

Note also that the sequence 'fuck' is a valid compression sequence
that could easily be generated by gzip when it compresses the code.
Your command will quite happily report it as well...

Best wishes from Riley.

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