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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Mail.app problem
Date: 14 Dec 2016 06:09:10 GMT
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On 2016-12-14, Happy.Hobo <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> wrote:
>
> Look at one of the old emails.  Copy a phrase that's not likely to be 
> very common.  Then in Terminal
>
> find ~ -type f -exec grep -l "put that phrase here" "{}" \;
>
> This will print the full path of any file containing that phrase.

That will take forever! I'd use Spotlight's mdfind command, which will
find matching items *much* more quickly:

mdfind "phrase here"

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