May 15, 2003

eyeball search

n.,v.

To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical sensors, as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like grep or any other automated search tool. Also called a vgrep; compare vdiff.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:48 AM

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