From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 30 8:22:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mithras.erudition.net (mithras.erudition.net [209.9.98.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6176137B403 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 08:22:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougp@mithras.erudition.net) Received: (from dougp@localhost) by mithras.erudition.net (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f6UFLYY40914; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:21:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dougp) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:21:34 -0400 From: Doug Poland To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can find search for text inside files? Message-ID: <20010730112134.A40808@polands.org> References: <20010730103826.A39974@polands.org> <20010730175640.G88739@everest.wananchi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010730175640.G88739@everest.wananchi.com>; from wash@wananchi.com on Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:56:40PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:56:40PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * Doug Poland [20010730 17:38]: writing on the subject > 'Re: can find search for text inside files?' > > Doug> On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:29:29AM -0400, Peter Brezny wrote: > Doug> > I need to search a number of e-mail files for specific text. > Doug> > > Doug> grep "specific text" * > > I thought he meant 'find' in Winblows because his mailer is Micro$uck > Outlock ;-) > I hope he's not asking how to use M$ find on a BSD list! > Well he could be passing the e-mails to a BSD box also, so grep can work, > even ;) > The only rational solution, of course ;) -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message