Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

Ben Ford
2001-04-22T10:46:44Z

Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

>>>> Find . -name "*Some-Name*" -type f -print | xargs grep 'Some-Info'
>>>> Hate answering with just one line of credible info , But .
>>>>
>>>The above would grep every file. It takes 1 minute and 9.5 seconds.
>>>So the distributed maintainer information does not scale well at all.
>>>
>>No it doesn't. It allows you to search for files of a specific naming
>>pattern and greps those. So if you needed to know the maintainers of all
>>the config.in files, you say:
>>
>>find . -name "*onfig.in" -type f -print | xargs grep 'P: '
>>
>
>That was an easy problem, and try it to see all the bad matches!
>This would be more normal:
>
>find . -type f | xargs egrep -i8 '^[^A-Z]*[A-Z]: .*(net|ip|tcp|eth|ppp)'
>
>That is not a nice and easy command for most people, and if it
>isn't exactly right you just wasted over a minute.
>

Eric *has* offered to write tools to simplify this. I would guess that
it would be something like:

kgrep [-t description] [-p person] [-m mailto] [-l mailing-list] [-w
webpage] [-c config symbol] [-d date] [-s status]

-b

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