[NBLUG/talk] Opinions: maildir vs mbox

Daniel Smith dls at daniel.org
Thu Jun 12 12:36:01 PDT 2003


>
>  > * can run grep / other searches / perl scripts against
>>  the directory tree of email - easy shell / GUI access
>>  from outside email program
>
>Personally I always find this a little clumsy; have to use rgrep or find |
>xargs grep or something like that...  (too many emails for "grep */*" to
>work)

Yes, of course.  I was referring to grep(1) in the general
sense, and really meant the less obvious "find * -exec grep..."
stuff :-)

Daniel

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