Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 20:35:25 -0500 From: "antenneX" <antennex@swbell.net> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Script help using "cut" Message-ID: <041801c5a84c$1a196560$0200000a@SAGEAME> References: <040a01c5a847$7a0353f0$0200000a@SAGEAME> <20050824011632.GA6103@gothmog.gr>
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----- 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
>
Yep! That looks good!
Many thanks again for the tip.
Best regards,
Jack L. Stone
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