[Users] Search question

Pierre Fortin pf at pfortin.com
Thu Jul 4 02:39:51 CEST 2013


On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 18:31:08 -0400 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:

>Is there a way to do a search on all mail folders in one go ?

I prefer to use one of:
  grep -R "string" Mail   # all string matches
  grep -Ri "string" Mail  #  "     "     "     ignoring case
  grep -Rl "string" Mail  # output only filenames which match
  grep -Ril "string" Mail #    "     "      "       "     "   -case

HTH



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