On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 15:10:41 -0800 L A Walsh <suse@tlinx.org> wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
It would generate another mbox file with the hits, IIRC. ... I don't remember now why I stopped using it. Perhaps because Thunderbird can search in several folders.
I used grep for a few reasons -- 1) (later reason), it added perl-compat RE's, 2) speed. have about 6.4G though some of those are compressed. 3) recursive 4) didn't search in Tbird as things would get messy trying to keep even archives in Imap.
Would usually try to find which folders had references. From there would either look at the file in an editor if it was old, or if the file was in IMAP, I'd search for what I wanted via Tbird+IMAP.
Still takes a while to do text searches through several gigabytes of text. It's mostly a narrowing down step to find where something is.
Just needed something to search through files for given strings. and grep used to be general case enough that it would search through just about anything. Apparently not anymore. Tried to report problem to gnu-grep bug list, and was told that grep only works on text files as defined by POSIX, ... wonderful...
Now if I can only get all email sources(authors) to follow POSIX standards for their email texts. Hahahaha...like that's gonna happen. Does anyone else think it's more than a bit odd to POSIXify people-interfaces? Programs, sure, but people?
So much for userfriendly...
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