On 04/20/10 00:37, Frank Bax wrote: > The first example in 'man sudo' shows how to list files in a protected > directory: > sudo ls /usr/local/protected > > I am not sure how I would search the contents of files found in such a > directory, for example: > $ sudo ls -l /var/spool/mqueue/ > total 8 > -rw------- 1 root wheel 2031 Apr 17 02:54 dfo3H6qkaT024430 > -rw------- 1 root wheel 936 Apr 19 18:22 qfo3H6qkaT024430 > $ sudo grep . /var/spool/mqueue/ > > How do I get some output from this grep command? >
Hmmm, maybe from using it properly? ;-) For these cases I either use -r (as Nicholas already pointed out), or, if you want or need to use a glob for finding the files, wrap it up like: $ sudo sh -c 'grep . /var/spool/mqueue/*' /Alexander
