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jameskuyper@verizon.net writes:

>> Maybe I am spoiled by the debugger and there other methods of course. 
>> Grep is very useful and I fixed several problems last year using it.
>
> Oh yes, I make extensive use of grep. A command I've issued many times
> this afternoon was:
>
>     grep -l search_string `find . -name "*.cpp" -o -name "*.h"`

A command so helpful the ability to run in simply is built into emacs.
(M-x grep-find).  FWIW, I find it useful in large projects regardless of
language.  I run it over the Linux source tree on a weekly basis in my
day job, usually to find the type of of a function pointer in a
structure.