Oops. And a brainteaser. Re: The Hosstraders retire

[Ben Scott]

On 2/17/07, Bill Sconce <sconce at in-spec-inc.com> wrote:
> Since each message is a file in mh-land, this command:
>     grep -in "hosstrad" ~/Mail/...gnhlug.x/* | less
> yields one line from each of the files (messages, headers included)
> which have "Hosstraders" in them.

  Shouldn't it yield *every* line which has "Hosstraders" in it?

-i = case insensitive
-n = line numbers

> So I worked up from the bottom, inspecting each match until I got
> back to messages from before the first of February ...

  Perhaps the shell did not expand the file names in dated order?

-- Ben