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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.
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He continued using eyeball search techniques, with great success, well into the 20th century.
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