Searching mail archives

[Dave C]

Julian Field wrote:
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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'
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> Jules
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And the Master teaches another apprentice.

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