* Tanstaafl <[email protected]> [150417 16:58]: > Hi all, > > Ok, this is driving me crazy... > > I want to be able to quickly search an entire users Maildir for an email > containing a certain string, but output just the filenames WITH THE > DATE/TIMEs... > > So, from the target users top level Maildir: > > grep -lr <searchstring> * | xargs ls -lt > > ^^^ appears to work, and does return results for the cur and new > subdirs, but seems to be ignoring the rest of the Maildirs. Maybe it has > something to do with the fact that they start with dots (ie, .Sent, > .Trash, etc)?? > > Anyone have any idea why the above doesn't search them all? > > Thanks
Try? grep -lr <searchstring> * | xargs ls -lta Maybe? Todd
