Re: [gentoo-user] grep -lr ignoring subdirs that start with dot (.)?

[Todd Goodman <tsg@bonedaddy.net>]

* Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> [150417 16:58]:
> Hi all,
> 
> Ok, this is driving me crazy...
> 
> I want to be able to quickly search an entire users Maildir for an email
> containing a certain string, but output just the filenames WITH THE
> DATE/TIMEs...
> 
> So, from the target users top level Maildir:
> 
> grep -lr <searchstring> * | xargs ls -lt
> 
> ^^^ appears to work, and does return results for the cur and new
> subdirs, but seems to be ignoring the rest of the Maildirs. Maybe it has
> something to do with the fact that they start with dots (ie, .Sent,
> .Trash, etc)??
> 
> Anyone have any idea why the above doesn't search them all?
> 
> Thanks

Try?

grep -lr <searchstring> * | xargs ls -lta

Maybe?

Todd