On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 06:54 (-0500), E. Liddell wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:11:56 -0600 > "Darrell Anderson" <darrella@...> wrote: >>>>> I would like to inspect source tree text strings for instances >>>>> of KDE/kde rebranding issues and update to TDE/tde. Mostly in >>>>> tooltips and What's This help strings. My challenge is being >>>>> able to efficiently grep only those strings, which often in the >>>>> sources are multiple lines. >>>>> I would appreciate shell scripting advice to find such text >>>>> strings. >>>> Nobody knows? >>>It would help to search whole words - grep option '-w'? >> I don't understand how that helps. For example, I want to find all >> TQWhatsThis strings, which often are multiple lines, and ensure I >> am searching the entire string, which includes all the multiple >> lines. About the only thing I know is the search will key on >> something like TQWhatsThis and the entire glob of text to search >> will end with an apostrophe (;). All of that constitutes the entire >> string that must be searched for 'KDE/kde'. > I think people may have misinterpreted your use of the word "efficiently" > in the original post to mean that you had the basics worked out and > were just worried about the run time (I know I did). > I don't think you can do this with grep, which operates primarily on > lines, unless you want to use shell script to read in each file and > concatenate the lines together without CR characters, then run grep > on the result. Much easier to forget about shell scripting and do it in > Perl, in which case you need to recurse across the directory tree, > slurp in entire files, run each through a regular expression match > like (from your example, and assuming you meant "semicolon" where > you wrote "apostrophe"): > /(TQWhatsThis.*?kde.*?\;)/gim > and print out the matches. Darrell, I'm not really clear on what it is you want to search for. However, if the string that E. Liddell specifies is correct, you could try this: cd <top-level-dir-of-the-files-you-want-to-search> find . -type f | while read f do if tr $'\n' ' ' < $f | sed 's/"[ \t][ \t]*"/ /g' | grep -i 'TQWhatsThis[^"]*"[^"]*kde' >/dev/null then echo $f has it fi done Explanation, in case it is needed: - the find command produces a list of file which are fed into the while loop - the tr command turns newlines into spaces, so that - the sed command glues adjacent strings together - the grep finds TQWhatsThis followed by non-" stuff followed by " followed by KDE in any mixture of upper and lower case - the if outputs the file name if grep found the string There may be false alarms in this, but *off the top of my head* I think it shouldn't miss anything, unless - grep gets unhappy with files with very long lines, or - someone has embedded double quotes, as in TQWhatsThis ... ("blah \" blah KDE). I am running it right now on my copy of the R14.0 tree on an i7-965 and I can say it is not blindingly fast. The output I got (from a copy of the git tree from about 3 weeks ago) is: ./main/applications/kiosktool/kiosktool/kcms/autostart/kcmautostart.cpp has it ./main/applications/knowit/src/knowitpref.cpp has it ./main/applications/kasablanca/src/Q_generalpreferencesdialog.cpp has it ./main/applications/konversation/konversation/src/serverlistdialog.cpp has it ./main/tdelibs/tdeprint/management/kmconfigfonts.cpp has it ./main/tdelibs/tdeio/tdefile/kurlbar.cpp has it ./main/tdelibs/kate/part/katedialogs.cpp has it ./main/tdelibs/tdeui/kcursor.cpp has it ./main/tdelibs/tdeui/kwhatsthismanager.cpp has it ./main/tdelibs/tdecore/twin.cpp has it ./main/tdesdk/kbabel/kbabeldict/modules/tmx/preferenceswidget.cpp has it ./main/tdesdk/kbabel/kbabeldict/modules/pocompendium/preferenceswidget.cpp has it ./main/tdepim/korganizer/koattendeeeditor.cpp has it ./main/tdebase/klipper/configdialog.cpp has it ./main/tdebase/kcontrol/performance/system.cpp has it ./main/tdebase/kcontrol/konq/rootopts.cpp has it ./main/tdebase/kcontrol/kded/kcmkded.cpp has it ./main/tdebase/kcontrol/fonts/fonts.cpp has it ./main/tdebase/kcontrol/konqhtml/policydlg.cpp has it ./main/tdebindings/qtjava/javalib/qtjava/TQWhatsThis.cpp has it ./main/tdebindings/kalyptus/kalyptusDataDict.pm has it ./main/tdeadmin/lilo-config/kde-qt-common/images.cpp has it ./main/libraries/libtqt-perl/kalyptus/kalyptusDataDict.pm has it ./main/tdevelop/vcs/cvsservice/cvspart.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/vcs/subversion/subversion_part.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/parts/valgrind/valgrind_part.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/parts/texttools/texttoolspart.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/parts/tools/tools_part.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/parts/diff/diffpart.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/parts/outputviews/appoutputviewpart.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/parts/outputviews/makeviewpart.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/parts/fileview/filegroupspart.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/parts/fileview/fileviewpart.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/parts/fileview/partwidget.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/parts/konsole/konsoleviewpart.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/parts/fileselector/fileselector_widget.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/parts/distpart/distpart_part.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/parts/ctags2/ctags2_part.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/parts/tipofday/tipofday_part.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/parts/snippet/snippet_part.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/parts/filelist/projectviewpart.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/parts/filecreate/filecreate_part.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/parts/filecreate/filecreate_widget2.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/parts/filecreate/filecreate_widget3.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/parts/grepview/grepviewpart.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/parts/documentation/documentation_part.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/buildtools/qmake/trollprojectwidget.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/buildtools/autotools/autoprojectwidget.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/buildtools/autotools/autoprojectpart.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/kdevdesigner/designer/resource.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/kdevdesigner/designer/mainwindow.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/languages/ruby/debugger/debuggerpart.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/languages/ruby/rubysupport_part.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/languages/cpp/debugger/debuggerpart.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/languages/bash/bashsupport_part.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/languages/sql/sqlsupport_part.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/languages/ada/adasupportpart.cpp has it ./main/tdevelop/embedded/visualboyadvance/visualboyadvance_part.cpp has it I hope that helps. If it is not finding things it should, or it is hitting you with too many false alarms, feel free to get back to me with specifics and I may be able to help. Jim