Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 04:16:32 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: antenneX <antennex@swbell.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Script help using "cut" Message-ID: <20050824011632.GA6103@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <040a01c5a847$7a0353f0$0200000a@SAGEAME> References: <040a01c5a847$7a0353f0$0200000a@SAGEAME>
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On 2005-08-23 20:02, antenneX <antennex@swbell.net> wrote:
> Been trying to complete a script that I can use to grep spam emails
> from the maillog, then trim it to just the plain email address. Trying
> to use "cut" in the script but it's not doing what I want yet.
>
> Here is what the earlier lines have the lines down to so far:
> " (envelope-from spammer@badguy.com)" -- no quotes
> ...and I want this "clean" trimmed result after trim using "cut" or
> anything else that works to trim/cut:
>
> spammer@badguy.com <--- no underlines of course
>
> That's a TAB space at beginning of the line.
>
> The "envelope" lines are in a tmp file in colum format (one line below
> the other).
> (envelope-from spammer@badguy.com)
> (envelope-from spammer2@badguy2.com)
> (envelope-from spammer3@badguy3.com)
>
> All ideas appreciated....
Does it have to be cut(1)?
$ awk '{print $2}' tmpfile | sed -e 's/)[[:space:]]*$//' | sort | uniq
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