Searching mail archives

[Julian Field]

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Dave C wrote:
> Nigel Kendrick wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to search a months-worth of mail archives
>> (/var/spool/MailScanner/archive/200611**) for a specific sender, 
>> subject and
>> attachment. I have had a play with grep and awk but I am not doing very
>> well!!
>>
>> Are there any utilities to help or can anyone suggest a sensible command
>> line that will do the job?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Nigel Kendrick
>>
> This works pretty good for me.. (watch the word wrap and the 
> searchterm needs to be in single quotes)
>
> find /var/spool/MailScanner/archive/200611?? -type f -name df\* -exec 
> grep -il 'searchterm' {} \; 
What is enormously faster is
find /var/spool/MailScanner/archive/200611?? -type f -name df\* -print | 
xargs grep -il 'searchterm'

Jules

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