On 4/17/2015 5:59 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > Since you want to search the entire contents f the current directory, > there is no need to pass grep a list of directories (especially not an > incomplete list), use "grep -lr ."
Ok, thanks Neil, but this is still not what I'm looking for... here's a snip of what I got: > ./user1/Maildir/.Sent/cur/1348064019.M219121P18374.mailhost.com,S=7615,W=7788:2,S > ./user1/Maildir/.Sent/dovecot.index.cache > ./user2/Maildir/cur/1348063111.Vfe02Ia7fe0eM242648.mailhost.com:2,S > ./user2/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache What I'd like is the output you get with 'grep -ir "searchstring" .' which includes the line of text from each matching file that contains the searchstring, like this: > ./user/Maildir/cur/1429731479.M511050P25876.hostname,S=3097,W=3185:2,S:Name > asked me to approve Test PO 12036 this afternoon so she could see > ./user/Maildir/cur/1429731479.M511050P25876.hostname,S=3097,W=3185:2,S:it in > the system. In looking at Test PO 12033 & 12034 they show signed > ./user/Maildir/cur/1429731479.M511050P25876.hostname,S=3097,W=3185:2,S:by me > however I did not approve these test PO's only test PO 12036 - how > ./user/Maildir/cur/1429731479.M511050P25876.hostname,S=3097,W=3185:2,S: > Name asked me to approve Test PO 12036 this afternoon so she could but... What I'd like is for each output line showing the file-hit to be prefaced with at least the date/time of the file (permissions/owner etc would be ok too, but I at least need the date/time), like you get when doing an ls -al... Is this just not possible? Thanks again...
