On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 02:25:38PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > Let's find the patch files whose filenames are not referenced anywhere, > except possibly in 'gnu/local.mk': > > $ for patch in gnu/packages/patches/*; do result=$(grep -rI ${patch##*/}) \ > && test ${result%%:*} != "gnu/local.mk" || echo $patch; done This shell snippet needs improvement, to say the least! But it worked okay this time :)