On 3/8/2012 5:19 AM, xTrade Assessory wrote: > Tom Kinghorn wrote: >> >> You can then grep through the spam files and search for a common >> string, eg score. >> >> e.g >> # cd /amavis/virusmails >> # >> # ls -la | grep "spam" | grep "Mar 8" | awk '{print $9}' | xargs >> zgrep -i "score=" >> >> > wow 5 processes for each step ... that eventually gets your machine real > busy ... > > at least join all this greps into one grep -e pattern -e pattern or > egrep "pattern1|pattern2"
That isn't the same search. grep -e pattern1 -e pattern2 = pattern1 or pattern2 grep pattern1 | grep pattern2 = pattern1 and pattern2 -- Bowie