On Wednesday 04 January 2006 12:19 pm, Andrew J. Kopciuch wrote: > > My set up is kmail/ Maildir. AFAIK attachments are kept with the mail in > > Kmail, instead of separately. But when I use my normal search tools -- > > grep, Konqueror Tools, I can not find known strings. > > That's because word documents are binary data.
..which is likely re-encoded in MIME, further complicating things. Unless I'm mistaken :) > > You could try using strings on each file, and piping the ouput through > grep. > > for f in `tree -if`; do echo $f; strings $f | grep whatIAmLookingFor; done; > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
