Thanks, Jason. I was actually trying to extract email addresses from a
executable address book file from an outlook express client for a friend.
I don't know how you script would work in this case.
Regards,
Smitty
Jason Broyles wrote:
> Sorry it took a bit to get back to you. I had the same issue so I did the below.
>
> I found a nice shell script online, made it execuiable and put it in
> my /usr/bin directory and named it ext. So I can go anywhere and as
> long as I have a text or csv file with e-mails in it, it will extract
> all of them. Say I have a folder with 10 csv or txt files in it. I can
> do the below.
>
> ext * > emails.txt (This will extract e-mails from all of the files in
> that directory and put them in a file called emails.txt. The script is
> below.
>
> #! /bin/sh
> # #############################################################################
>
> NAME_="emailadext"
> HTML_="isolate email address"
> PURPOSE_="extract email addresses from file or stdin"
> SYNOPSIS_="$NAME_ [-hl] <file> [file...]"
> REQUIRES_="standard GNU commands"
> VERSION_="1.0"
> DATE_="2004-06-24; last update: 2004-06-25"
> AUTHOR_="Dawid Michalczyk <dm@eonworks.com>"
> URL_="www.comp.eonworks.com"
> CATEGORY_="www"
> PLATFORM_="Linux"
> SHELL_="bash"
> DISTRIBUTE_="yes"
>
> # #############################################################################
> # This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
>
> usage () {
>
> echo >&2 "$NAME_ $VERSION_ - $PURPOSE_
> Usage: $SYNOPSIS_
> Requires: $REQUIRES_
> Options:
> -h, usage and options (this help)
> -l, see this script"
> exit 1
> }
>
> # options
> case $1 in
> -h) usage ;;
> -l) more $0 ; exit 1 ;;
> esac
>
> # main
> cat "$@" | { # so we can act as a filter
> tr ',;<>()"\47 ' '[\n*]' | sed -n -e 's/mailto://gI' -e '/@/p'
> }
>
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 9, 2007 7:12 PM, tom smith <atomsmitty@gmail.com> 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
>> Regards,
>> Smitty
>>
>
>
>
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