Re: Finding a name inside of an email

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:

> You know, it's things like that started my habit of perusing the man
> page before composing a command. I found myself struggling over getting
> a command to do just what I wanted in a way I thought I remembered, and
> then found out there was a new option... ;]
>
> Anyway, while dinking around I found a regex to leave only the filename,
> so here's the complete command:
>
> find Maildir/ -type f -exec grep -iH ledoux {} \; | \
> sed 's/^\([^,]*,[^:]*\):.*$/\1/'

Uh, guys, what's wrong with simply using:

  find MailDir/ -type f -exec grep -li ledoux \{\} \;

It lists just the filename, and nothing more. Now, given the example above
(if you *really* want to do a -iH) I would not use sed, but cut:

  find MailDir/ -type f -exec grep -Hi ledoux \{\} \; | cut -d: -f1

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Received on Wed Feb 23 08:43:52 2005