Re: Search on mailboxes - one at a time!

2002-04-26 Thread Sven Guckes
* David Collantes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-04-26 02:23]: Is there a way to perform a search on all mailboxes, without entering any in specific? No. FAQ! PS: *Two* Reply-To lines? is this a new business strategy? Sheesh! Sven

Re: Search on mailboxes

2002-04-26 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin David Collantes quotation: Is there a way to perform a search on all mailboxes, without entering any in specific? I use maildirs and Mutt 1.5.0i from the CVS. Thanks! sure: man find Pay special attention to the -exec flag. Something like: cd maildir find . -exec grep -l stuff

Re: Search on mailboxes

2002-04-26 Thread Mark J. Reed
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

Search on mailboxes

2002-04-25 Thread David Collantes
Hi there! Is there a way to perform a search on all mailboxes, without entering any in specific? I use maildirs and Mutt 1.5.0i from the CVS. Thanks! Cheers, -- David Collantes - http://www.bus.ucf.edu/david/ College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida If you fear