How to replace "ectags" with "ctags"?

[fender0107401]

"Exuberant Ctags" support "-R" option, so I can run "ectags -R" to generate tags file recursively.

But "ctags", which is included in openbsd base system, do not support this option.

My question is how to replace "ectags" with "ctags"?

I mean how to generate tags file recursively with "ctags"?

In my opinion, if "ctags" can't generate tags file recursively, it is useless.

[ephemera]

Example: for 'C' source & header files:

find . -name \*.c -o -name \*.h | xargs ctags

[ocicat]

Originally Posted by fender0107401

My question is how to replace "ectags" with "ctags"?

Why not install Exuberant Ctags which is available in the packages/ports system?

http://www.openbsd.org/4.6_packages/....tgz-long.html

[fender0107401]

Originally Posted by ephemera

Example: for 'C' source & header files:

find . -name \*.c -o -name \*.h | xargs ctags

Thanks a lot.

I added it to a Makefile to call make run it.

$ cat Makefile                                                                 
################################################################################
#
# Generate tags for the project.
#
################################################################################

all:
	find . -name \*.c -o -name \*.h | xargs ctags

clean:
	rm tags

################################################################################

Originally Posted by ocicat

Why not install Exuberant Ctags which is available in the packages/ports system?

http://www.openbsd.org/4.6_packages/....tgz-long.html

I know I can install "Exuberant Ctags" but I think if there are similar program in the based system why install another one.

[TerryP]

The main reason to use ectags is for the multiple programming language support. For straight C development, just about any tags generator will do fine.

I frequently use different languages, so I frequently use ectags.

[mjcross]

If your filenames might have spaces in them, then I would recommend doing it like this instead:

find . -print0 -type f -iname '*.[chly]' -or -iname '*.cpp' | xargs -0 ctags

Furthermore if performance isn't an issue it is better to let ctags decide whether the content is taggable rather than filtering on filenames, by simply doing:

find . -print0 -type f | xargs -0 ctags