eyeball search

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 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}.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

eyeball search

   <jargon> (Or vgrep) 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.

   Compare {vdiff}, {desk check}.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1997-12-17)

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