On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 11:12:35AM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> cd maildir
> find . -exec grep -l "stuff" {} \;
That works, but find -exec is inefficient, because it runs grep once
per file, while grep is perfectly capable of looking at multiple
files per run. It's better to use -print and xargs(1). Also, you only
want to try to grep files, not subdirectories, so you probably want
to specify -type f. That gives you this:
find . -type f -print | xargs grep -l "stuff"
When run, that command will list all the folders containing "stuff".
If you instead want to see all of the actual lines that contain
"stuff", just leave off the '-l' option to grep. Unfortunately, grep
won't tell you which mail message within the folder contains the
text; you need mailgrep or some other third-party add-on program
for that.
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