<p>The simplest way to do this is use a search engine e.g. Google, DuckDuckGo and enter:</p>
<p><code>&quot;bip37 site:lists.linuxfoundation.org&quot;</code></p>
<p>This is also useful for searching GitHub issues, pull requests as a Google search is often more effective than the github.com search functionality.</p>
<p>Alternatively you can go to <a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/</a> and download all the gzip mboxes (the URL scheme is simple, so you write a shell one-liner with curl), ungzip them, cat them together, and then use <code>mutt -f combined.mbox</code>.</p>
<pre><code> url=&quot;https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/&quot;
 for file in $(curl $url | grep -Eo \\d{4}-\\w+\\.txt\\.gz); do 
 wget &quot;$url$file&quot;
 done
 gzip *.gz
 cat *.txt &gt; combined.mbox
 mutt -f combined.mbox
</code></pre>
<p>This question was answered by various individuals on IRC. Thanks to the individual who provided the above shell script.</p>
<p><strong>May 2023 update</strong></p>
<p>There is now a Bitcoin technical search site <a href="https://bitcoinsearch.xyz/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://bitcoinsearch.xyz/</a> (maintained by Chaincode Labs) where you can search commonly used technical resources (bitcoin-dev, lightning-dev mailing list, Bitcoin Talk, Bitcoin StackExchange, btctranscripts.com, Bitcoin Optech etc) by author (e.g. &quot;Andrew Chow&quot;) and/or keyword (e.g. &quot;Adaptor signatures&quot;).</p>

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<p>How can I efficiently search the bitcoin-dev <a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">mailing list</a> for discussion on a specific term e.g. deprecating BIP37 support?</p>
<p>This question was asked by pinheadmz on IRC.</p>

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How can I efficiently search the bitcoin-dev mailing list for discussion of a specific term?
Michael Folkson
# How can I efficiently search the bitcoin-dev mailing list for discussion of a specific term?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-07-26)

How can I efficiently search the bitcoin-dev [mailing list](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/) for discussion on a specific term e.g. deprecating BIP37 support?

This question was asked by pinheadmz on IRC.

**Tags:** terminology, bitcoincore-review


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2021-07-26. Score: 5 | Accepted answer

The simplest way to do this is use a search engine e.g. Google, DuckDuckGo and enter:

`"bip37 site:lists.linuxfoundation.org"`

This is also useful for searching GitHub issues, pull requests as a Google search is often more effective than the github.com search functionality.

Alternatively you can go to <https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/> and download all the gzip mboxes (the URL scheme is simple, so you write a shell one-liner with curl), ungzip them, cat them together, and then use `mutt -f combined.mbox`.

```
 url="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/"
 for file in $(curl $url | grep -Eo \\d{4}-\\w+\\.txt\\.gz); do 
 wget "$url$file"
 done
 gzip *.gz
 cat *.txt > combined.mbox
 mutt -f combined.mbox

```

This question was answered by various individuals on IRC. Thanks to the individual who provided the above shell script.

**May 2023 update**

There is now a Bitcoin technical search site <https://bitcoinsearch.xyz/> (maintained by Chaincode Labs) where you can search commonly used technical resources (bitcoin-dev, lightning-dev mailing list, Bitcoin Talk, Bitcoin StackExchange, btctranscripts.com, Bitcoin Optech etc) by author (e.g. "Andrew Chow") and/or keyword (e.g. "Adaptor signatures").


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