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Terminal command to help you find preprocessor code smells in Objective-C code
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find . \( \( -name "*.[chm]" -o -name "*.mm" \) -o -name "*.cpp" \) -print0 | xargs -0 egrep -n '^\w*\#' | egrep -v '(import|pragma|else|endif|HC_SHORTHAND|MOCKITO_SHORTHAND)'
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jonreid commented Oct 5, 2011 •
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This command examines source files from the current directory down, showing preprocessor use that you should double-check.

See "9 Code Smells of Preprocessor Use" https://qualitycoding.org/xcode-preprocessor-macros/

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donarb commented Feb 2, 2013

You might want to exclude 'include' statements in your script as well. Legacy C code will trigger false positives otherwise.

EDIT: Oh duh, just read the first point about preprocessor smells, but legacy code gets a pass.

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