Re: Mail.app problem

From	"Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Mail.app problem
Date	2016-12-14 22:29 -0600
Organization	On The Road
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On 12-14-2016 00:09, Jolly Roger wrote:
> 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"
>

Not forever.  But longer for sure.

on my system, 'mdfind waters | grep Mail' took 68 milliseconds.

'grep -lr ~/Library/Mail' took 42 seconds

'find ~/Library/Mail -type f -exec grep -l waters "{}" \;' to more than 
a minute.

BUT (and I don't understand this), find/grep found more files than the 
recursive grep, and the recursive grep reported more files than mdfind.

Differences may be less unless you're like me, saving e-mails for years.

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      Re: Mail.app problem "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-12-13 18:36 -0600
        Re: Mail.app problem Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-14 03:33 +0000
        Re: Mail.app problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-14 06:09 +0000
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          Re: Mail.app problem Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-15 02:29 +0000
          Re: Mail.app problem "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-12-14 22:29 -0600

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