On 04/20/10 00:37, Frank Bax wrote:
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> 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