eyeball search

2 definitions found

eyeball search - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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)
  

eyeball search - 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.