Are there some kind of separator characters (like blanks) around the
e-mail addresses? If not, the task may well be impossible ... suppose
you find "fred@aol.com", is that really the address? Or is there a
binary character which just happens to be an "f" in front of
"red@aol.com"? In fact, it is POSSIBLE (although not probable) that
"fred@aol.com" is just binary stuff representing the mileage of your car!
Of course by looking for a regex such as
[a-zA-Z0-9]*@[a-zA-Z0-9]*\.[a-zA-Z0-9]*
you may be able to get pretty close.
Jim Hartley
tom smith wrote:
> Ron Youvan wrote:
>>> I have a binary file with readable email addresses embedded in it.
>>> I would like to extract those email addresses to a text file such that
>>> the email
>>> addresses are readable and separated, preferably all in one column.
>>> Is there anyway to do this with a shell script or using a series of
>>> file system
>>> utilities? Each email address is an identifiable string e.g.
>>> soandso@blabla.com
>> Is this something that midnight commander can't view? (F3)
>
> The email addresses can be read in a text editor, but are embedded in a binary
> file. For example, when you open the file, you can see a binary string and then
> an email address, then a binary string, then an email address, and so on.
> I need a method to extract each email address string and put each into a single
> text file so it is usable.
> Tom
>
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