[Users] A filtering annoyance

[Renaud OLGIATI (Ron)]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 08:23:32 -0500
Pierre Fortin <pf at pfortin.com> wrote:

> >> Ta, now I can start grepping like one demented  ;-3)

> >is the log file in some kind of binary format ?
> >While the files exists, and has a content per:
> >	$ wc ~/.claws-mail/filtering.log
> >	 1356 10062 70767 /home/ron/.claws-mail/filtering.log
> >Trying to grep it, or to open it in an editor with:
> >	$ mousepad ~/.claws-mail/filtering.log
> >gives nothing at all.
 
> $ file .claws-mail/filtering.log
> .claws-mail/filtering.log: ASCII text, with very long lines

I get a rather different result:

	$ file .claws-mail/filtering.log
	.claws-mail/filtering.log: data
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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