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[Denis Beauchemin]

Julian Field a écrit :
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> Dave C wrote:
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>> Nigel Kendrick wrote:
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>>> Hi,
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>>> I need to search a months-worth of mail archives
>>> (/var/spool/MailScanner/archive/200611**) for a specific sender, 
>>> subject and
>>> attachment. I have had a play with grep and awk but I am not doing very
>>> well!!
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>>> Are there any utilities to help or can anyone suggest a sensible command
>>> line that will do the job?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Nigel Kendrick
>>>
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>> This works pretty good for me.. (watch the word wrap and the 
>> searchterm needs to be in single quotes)
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>> find /var/spool/MailScanner/archive/200611?? -type f -name df\* -exec 
>> grep -il 'searchterm' {} \; 
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> What is enormously faster is
> find /var/spool/MailScanner/archive/200611?? -type f -name df\* -print | 
> xargs grep -il 'searchterm'
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> Jules
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If you are using Linux, grep can do recursive searches by itself:
       -R, -r, --recursive
              Read all files under each directory, recursively; this  
is  equiva-
              lent to the -d recurse option.

So, "cd /var/spool/MailScanner/archive/200611?? && grep -ril 
'searchterm' $PWD" should also do it.

Denis

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