eyeball search
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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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