[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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