----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "antenneX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED])"  -- no quotes
> > ...and I want this "clean" trimmed result after trim using "cut"
or
> > anything else that works to trim/cut:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]  <--- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> >     (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> >     (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> >
> > 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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