Re: grepping a string from a large code base

Thank you, this is still using grep, so I guess it will still be
slow.. b/c the code base is too large about 7G..
Jim

On Jun 23, 1:08 am, Reid Thompson <reid.thomp...@ateb.com> wrote:
> On 6/22/2010 10:27 PM, Jim Green wrote:
>
> > Hi vim community,
> > I need to constantly perform a grepping of a string(eg, sth in logs)
> > from a large code base, now I use grep on the command line to do this.
> > I just started using ctags but it can not do the grepping of arbitrary
> > string for me.
>
> > could any vim users point me to a popular tool that I can use to
> > improve my efficiency, I use only vim to browse and write code so I
> > hope this is not off topic here.
>
> > Thank you,
> > Jim
>
> mod to meet your needs...
>
> $ cat gref
> if [ $# = 1 ]
> then
>      dir=.
>      echo "dir is $dir"
> else if [ $# = 2 ]
> then
>      dir=$2
>      echo "dir is $dir"
> else
>      echo "Usage: 'basename $0' pattern [path]"
>      echo "         escape asterisks like so:  \$gref text /home/\*.c"
>      echo "\n"
> exit 1
> fi
> fi
>
> find $dir -type f \! -name \*.o \! -name \*.a \! -perm 775 \! -name \*.class \! -name \*.html -exec grep -l
> "$1" {} \; -exec grep -n "$1" {} \; -exec echo " " \;
>
> sample output
>
> Administrator@cyberhome ~/src/tcc-0.9.25
> $ gref tcc_add_library_path .
> dir is .
> ./libtcc.c
> 1826:    tcc_add_library_path(s, CONFIG_SYSROOT "/usr/local/lib");
> 1827:    tcc_add_library_path(s, CONFIG_SYSROOT "/usr/lib");
> 1828:    tcc_add_library_path(s, CONFIG_SYSROOT "/lib");
> 2039:int tcc_add_library_path(TCCState *s, const char *pathname)
> 2161:    tcc_add_library_path(s, buf);
>
> ./libtcc.h
> 77:LIBTCCAPI int tcc_add_library_path(TCCState *s, const char *pathname);
>
> ./tcc.c
> 286:                tcc_add_library_path(s, optarg);

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