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Asked: 2026-05-15T15:38:59+00:00

I’m trying to determine which header declares a specific function. I’ve used grep to

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I’m trying to determine which header declares a specific function. I’ve used grep to find instances of the function’s use; now, I want to find which header is included by all the files. I’m aware of the comm utility; however, it can only compare two sorted files. Is there a Unix utility that can find the common lines between an arbitrary number of unsorted files, or must I write my own?

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     cat *.c | sort | uniq -c | grep -e '^ *COUNT #include'

    where COUNT is the number of files passed to cat. In playing around, I used this variant to see what files I #include at least 10 times:

     cat *.c | sort | uniq -c | grep -e '^ *[0-9][0-9]\+ #include'
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