Hey. So my good friend who is a support engineer was asking me how he could find mail log that wasn’t in the traditional location and he was scratching his head.
So I put this together (which by the way is really bad), but not in a harmful way, it could just be more elegant. But since he is still learning , this seemed like a good time to introduce him to xargs.

find / | grep mail | grep log | xargs -i ls -al {}

Nice and simple though and pretty much straight to the point, if the grep pipes are forgiven. (and wouldn’t blame you if they were not 🙂 )