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From: Jerry Van Baren <gvb.uboot@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:32:10 -0400
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] common: add a grepenv command
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On 07/16/2010 04:41 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:15:22 -0500
> Kim Phillips<kim.phillips@freescale.com>  wrote:
>
>> u-boot environments, esp. when boards are shared across multiple users,
>> can get pretty large and time consuming to visually parse.
>> The grepenv command this patch adds can be used in lieu of printenv
>> to facilitate searching.  grepenv works like printenv but limits its output
>> only to environment strings (variable name and value pairs) that match the
>> user specified substring.
>
> Since it doesn't actually handle regular expressions, I'd call it
> something like findenv.  Or fgrepenv. :-)
>
> -Scott

Me too on "findenv".  I don't like fgrepenv since it has the same 
problem as "grepenv".  It actually is a gssp (global substring print) :-P.

gvb