Recursive read with Less

[Jza]

So I want to do a less on my email (mbox) I have my email distributed across several folders such as

accont#/
200#/  <-- being year
   04/   <-- Number of month
	29/   <-- Number of day
	 mail.mbs

 

 

So what I want is a recursive use of less so I can read all the email with out having to hop on each directory, is there anyway i can do this somehting like:

less -R * | grep <keyword>

 

Regards.

[Steve Scrimpshire]

I'm not exactly sure how you plan on reading all the emails you need to read just by searching for one keyword. Grep will just output the one line that contains the keyword unless you specifically tell it to show X number of lines before and/or after and how will you know how many lines you need?

 

If you want to read every file under the directory recursively, maybe you could do something like:

 

find ./ -name "*" -type f -exec sh -c 'less ${0}' {} \;

Edited June 9, 2006 by Steve Scrimpshire

[neddie]

or maybe you want something like

grep -iR <keyword> *