On Mon, 2020-04-13 at 08:56 +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote: > Le 12/04/2020 à 23:35, Joe Perches a écrit : > > On Sun, 2020-04-12 at 23:20 +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote: > > > s/mvmeta/mvneta/ > > nice. how did you find this? > > Hi, > > This is based on a bash script I've made a while ago (see [1]) > I've slightly updated it, but the idea is still the same. I search > strings in a file with some variation on the file name (2 inverted > chars, 1 missing char or 1 modified char). > > The output is horrible, and a lot of filtering should be done. > It is much like noise, with MANY false positives. But I manage to dig > some interesting stuff out of it. > > If interested in the updated script, just ask, but except the concept > itself, I'm not sure than anything else worth anything and is should be > rewritten from scratch. > > The update includes some tweaks in order to search into Kconfig files > instead. > > CJ > > [1]: https://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitors&m=156382201306781&w=4 Nice. I was wondering if you used levenshtein distance or something else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance
