On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 07:00:08PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 07:12:19PM -0500, tom smith 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
>
> It should be doable with a regular expression -- either cat, grep, and
> redirects, or something like Perl or Ruby.
. . . or, as someone else pointed out, you could use the `strings`
utility. I completely forgot about that one.
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