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Date:      Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:58:32 -0500
From:      "antenneX" <antennex@swbell.net>
To:        "antenneX" <antennex@swbell.net>, "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Script help using "cut"
Message-ID:  <042701c5a8ab$88debd60$0200000a@SAGEAME>
References:  <040a01c5a847$7a0353f0$0200000a@SAGEAME><20050824011632.GA6103@gothmog.gr> <041801c5a84c$1a196560$0200000a@SAGEAME>

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "antenneX" <antennex@swbell.net>
To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: Script help using "cut"


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
> To: "antenneX" <antennex@swbell.net>
> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 8:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Script help using "cut"
>
>
> > 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
> >
>

Just woke up this morning and realized I needed to chop off more -- 
everything except the domain.

So, instead of spammer@badguy.com I need the result badguy.com

How could the above awk line be expanded to chop off the username@
portion as well?

Sorry, must have been really tired.




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