Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> __/ [ Martin Gregorie ] on Friday 24 February 2006 15:23 \__
>
> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> >> __/ [ Ken Parkes ] on Thursday 23 February 2006 21:49 \__
> >>
> >>> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:03:42 +0000, Darren Salt wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I demand that Ken Parkes may or may not have written...
> >>>>
> >>>>> Have been searching for an old sent email. If I enter, in a terminal,
> >>>>> <grep Gamblesby /mnt/backup/username/.Mail> I get no response from the
> >>>>> instruction. If I open Tools>Find File in Konqueror, and enter the
> >>>>> same request I get the sent mail file containing Gamblesby in the
> >>>>> message within
> >>>>> 15 seconds. What am I doing wrong with grep please? I thought Find
> >>>>> File was just a front end for grep.
> >>>> -R, -r, --recursive, --directories=recurse. Take your pick...
> >>> Many thanks Darren. O'Reilly Linux in a nutshell was no help, said -R
> >>> was to preprocess with refer. Your post made me check again. I had
> >>> turned two pages, from grep -d to groff -f. Quietly goes into a
> >>> corner and bangs head against wall.
> >>>
> >>> Ken.
> >>
> >> For simplicity, it is often worth using the facilities provided the mail
> >> program to do full body search. Good applications will build good indices
> >> or hash tables to make subsequent searches faster. The advantage of this
> >> approach is that you get the message in question well-encapsulated and
> >> among context. Failing that, I choose to use fgrep -R * in the appropriate
> >> directory.
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >>
> >> Roy
> > mboxgrep is quite nice. By default it does regex searches among the
> > headers and pulls out the entire e-mail.
> >
> > Its open source, not a standard part of any distro.
>
> http://mboxgrep.sourceforge.net/
>
> Nice one! I await the day when such tools are incorporated into FOSS/Linux
> mail clients. OpenOffice 2 is finally doing regex, which the competitors'
> products do not.
>
Thare's also mairix, which I use.
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Chris Green
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