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

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

Todd Goodman <tsg@bonedaddy.net> wrote:

> * 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?

Better use the find command with -exec grep  and its arguments.  You
will probably need  -H if you want to know the filename.  The difference
is that find only ignores . and .., but does go over other things
beginning with . 

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