Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Um... why? Three lines of text doesn't take "minutes" to write. And 
>> that's about all it takes to search a folder for a file matching a 
>> condition. (Obviously, it depends on how complicated the condition is...)
> 
>   How long does it take you to write a program which does the same thing
> as this:
> 
>     fgrep '#include "header.hh"' *.cc
> 
>   How long does it take to write the program *and* compile it *and* run it?
> Why would you do that when you *already* have a program which does that
> (namely 'grep')?
> 
>   And I didn't even use any wildcards there.

OK, fair enough. I guess we'll just put this one down as "I personally 
have never ever needed to do this" then.

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