[TriLUG] command line assistance, please

[James c. Jones]

Thanks Alan. I tried yours but since I am now not sure of the email domain name, I didn't get any more hits than with the earlier command line.

jcj

Alan Porter wrote:
>> 1. I need to find a file ( file name unknown ) that contains an email
>> address which is partially known ( example = @duke.edu ) The search will
>> be across two ntfs partition and one linux partition.
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> I use this --> grep -r "@duke.edu" /var/mail
> The GNU version of grep has recursion built-in. :-)
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> Alan
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