[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: using grep to scan projects

[Nicodemo Alvaro]

On 5/16/09, Nicodemo Alvaro <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi, I've been looking into using grep as a tool to scan projects that
> might not meet the hosting requirements of Savannah.
>
> The query that I have tried using is:
>
> grep -r -L -f license_notice --exclude-from=exclude_files $dir > no_notice

Okay, I made a sort of a mistake here. I usually use -L to find files
without the Copyright. It would be better to use -l if only one
license notice text is there. Having all license notices in one file
makes it more prone to error, I think.

grep -r --files-with-matches --file license_notice
--exclude-from=exclude_files $dir > notice_type

So this time --files-with-matches (-l) would list all files that match
any of the lines in the license_notice file.
-- 
Nicodemo