Help with grep

Say I want to search a director for the beginning of the task_struct declaration such as "struct task_struct {". What would the grep command be to achieve this if I want to search the kernel/ directory

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Originally Posted by NuNn

Say I want to search a director for the beginning of the task_struct declaration such as "struct task_struct {". What would the grep command be to achieve this if I want to search the kernel/ directory

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Go to the root of the source tree and:

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grep -Hirl 'struct task_struct {' .

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Obviously this will only find it if it's actually written precisely that way in the code... Personally, I use cscope to navigate such large codebases.