search eml file
 

hello guys, any ideas of a free software to search eml file contents?

What I mean is if i have a hundreds of eml files in a single folder, i just want to search for a keyword or phrase that will search the contents of the eml file and save a text result for eml files that matches the search keyword or phrase.

So there will be no need to open one by one the eml file.

Thank you.

I believe these are text files. If so, a simple grep will help.
<whatever option just prints the file name, not the whole line> is left as an exercise to the reader.

Yes, this is true. And since I was recently forced to do just this kind of operation I can testify that it works. I actually used less to search the .eml file (an Inbox), but grep will work too of course.

Best regards,
HMW

Hi All, thanks for your reply guys.

Yes it indeed works.

For the benefit of others who will bump to this thread or will have same issue I used this command:

grep -R -H "MyKeyword" *.eml > output.txt

Thank you guys.