The why: On plug-talk a few years ago, someone suggested a vendor for aftermarket laptop batteries. I can't find that email using simple "grep" in the hundreds of megabytes of plug emails I've saved over the decades. Tens of thousands of hits for laptop, thousands for battery, thousands for ".com".
Of course, "someone" can tell me again ... The what: ... but I prefer to learn about more capable tools than grep. Ideally, a (hypothetical) text tool designed to search for multiple command line strings anywhere in a file, select only those files that match some or many of those strings (with adjustable threshold), then present the file name and the matched lines in a human-readable format. With this tool and some patience, a few passes through my megabytes of plug emails might lead me to that vaguely recalled email or the forgotten "someone". As I get old and my memory fails, such a tool will help me discover associations that I used to be able to find in my head. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
