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From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
To: Thorsten Blum <[email protected]>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] treewide: Fix common grammar mistake "the the"
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:37:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On Thu, 2024-04-11 at 17:04 +0200, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> Use `find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/\<the the\>/the/g' {} +` to find all
> occurrences of "the the" and replace them with a single "the".

I estimated that this misses at least ~50 instances split across lines:

$ git grep -ih -A1 -e 'the$'|grep -vi 'the$'|grep -E -- '^[^a-zA-Z0-9]*the '|wc -l
51

And a bunch that have more than one space:

$ git grep -E '\<the\s\s+the\>'|wc -l
20

So not sure you should claim "all" ;-)

johannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-04-11 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-11 15:04 [PATCH] treewide: Fix common grammar mistake "the the" Thorsten Blum
2024-04-11 15:13 ` Randy Dunlap
2024-04-11 15:25 ` Dan Carpenter
2024-04-11 22:39   ` Thorsten Blum
2024-04-12  6:41     ` Jani Nikula
2024-04-11 15:37 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2024-04-11 16:29 ` Tyler Hicks
2024-04-11 16:45 ` Robin Murphy
2024-04-11 17:11   ` [PATCH v2] " Thorsten Blum
2024-04-11 20:23     ` Christophe JAILLET

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