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Bug#526435: lintian: [checks/binaries.desc] Please add to the description that the case of the string can be different



On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 13:32 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Paul Gevers wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I spend quite some time yesterday of finding a sting which was in all
> > CAPS. Please add some comment to the description that the string
> > reported might be found in any variant of capitization. Maybe also a add
> > comment on how to find the string yourself, i.e. use
> > "strings <binary> | grep -i <string>".
> > 
> 
> Good idea, thanks. The new description proposed in the attached patch
> follows:

Applied, thanks (with only one small tweak, to s/lintian/Lintian/ :-)

> N:   To find the original word you can run:
> N:
> N:   strings <binary> | grep -i <word>
> N:
> N:   You can often find the word in the source code by running:
> N:
> N:   grep -r '\b<original-word>\b' <source-tree>

Shouldn't that be grep -ir?

Regards,

Adam



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