Use grep to find content in files and move them if they match

Question

I\'m using grep to generate a list of files I need to move:

grep -L -r \'Subject: \\[SPAM\\]\' .

How can I pass this list to the mv command

Answer 1

grep -L -Z -r 'Subject: \[SPAM\]' . | xargs -0 -I{} mv {} DIR

The -Z means output with zeros (\0) after the filenames (so spaces are not used as delimeters).

xargs -0

means interpret \0 to be delimiters.

Then

-I{} mv {} DIR

means replace {} with the filenames, so you get mv filenames DIR.