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

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Published on 2008-09-18T12:03:45Z Indexed on 2010/05/31 20:03 UTC
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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 and move the files somewhere else?

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