[Tfug] find | grep pipe question

[Paul Lemmons]

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Subject: [Tfug] find | grep pipe question
From: "Charles R. Kiss" <charles at kissbrothers.com>
To: tfug at tfug.org
Date: 10/23/2008 10:25 PM
> Is there a find|grep pipe that will 'find' the numerous directories I 
> have containing abook.mab files then grep out the terms containing the 
> '@' symbol output them into a text file so that I can import them into 
> my address book.
>
> Or how else do I import the abook.mabs that I have collected over the 
> years??
> I normally just do separate find and grep operations to find old email 
> addresses and I thought someone else might have a better idea.
>
> TIA
>
> charles
>
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Untested but should be close...


find . -name abook.mab | xargs grep '@' > address.book

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