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

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

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Am Freitag, 17. April 2015, 22:57:49 schrieb Tanstaafl:
> 
> 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)??
> 


'*' does not match things starting with a dot, your suspicion is correct. 

(make a directory with one file in it, try
   ls -la 
 versus
   ls -la *
:)

There's a simple solution: 

grep -lr <searchstring> . | xargs ls -lt


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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
dilfridge@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/

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