[U-Boot] grep for message

michael trimarchi at gandalf.sssup.it
Thu Nov 27 12:21:43 CET 2008


Hi,

Alessandro Rubini wrote:
>> It is nessary a grep with the full message? There are a lot of situation
>> when the grep is impossible.
>>     
>
> FWIW, I think it's not important to have the message in one line.
>
> I prefer to grep for the message in the object files. This is
> especially useful when the same message appears in different places
> (e.g., different archs), so I'm sure I only get the ones that are
> in my binary
>
>    #!/bin/sh
>    find . -name "*.o" -o -name "*.ko" | xargs nm -o | grep $1
>
> /alessandro
>
>   

I'm agree with Alessandro. The code is more readable if we have lines < 
80 chars.

Regards Michael


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