Search for commented-out code across files in Eclipse

Question

Is there a quick way to find all the commented-out code across Java files in Eclipse? Any option in Search, perhaps, or any add-on that can do this?

It should be able to

Answer 1

You can do a search in Eclipse.

All you need to search for is /* and //

However, you will only find the files which contain that expression, and not the actual content which I believe you are after.

However, if you are using Linux you can easily get all the comments with a one liner.