Re: [gentoo-user] grep -lr ignoring subdirs that start with dot (.)?

2015-04-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 07:32:54 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: 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:

Re: [gentoo-user] grep -lr ignoring subdirs that start with dot (.)?

2015-04-23 Thread Tanstaafl
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

Re: [gentoo-user] grep -lr ignoring subdirs that start with dot (.)?

2015-04-19 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Freitag, 17. April 2015, 22:57:49 schrieb Tanstaafl: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] grep -lr ignoring subdirs that start with dot (.)?

2015-04-17 Thread Todd Goodman
* Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org [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

Re: [gentoo-user] grep -lr ignoring subdirs that start with dot (.)?

2015-04-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 16:57:49 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] grep -lr ignoring subdirs that start with dot (.)?

2015-04-17 Thread Tanstaafl
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

Re: [gentoo-user] grep -lr ignoring subdirs that start with dot (.)?

2015-04-17 Thread covici
Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: * Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org [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