Before I start rolling my own solution, does anyone know of a utility or collection of utilities that will
1) Extract all of the MIME attachments from a mailing list archive,
2) Extract the files from any archived (tar|zip|rar|...) attachments,
3) Move each extracted file to a specific directory, renaming it if there's a naming collision, and
4) Remove any duplicate files.
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 17:44 -0500, Gerald Combs wrote:
Before I start rolling my own solution, does anyone know of a utility or collection of utilities that will
- Extract all of the MIME attachments from a mailing list archive,
You might check out uudeview or mpack http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/UUDeview/ No URL for mpack. In the Debian package, the author says of mpack says to use uudeview.
- Extract the files from any archived (tar|zip|rar|...) attachments,
I assume once you extract the files from your mail archives and remove any duplicates, it would be trival to run a loop on all files you extracted:
<pseudo-code> if $extension eq ".tar.gz" or $extension eq ".tgz" then tar xvfz $filename else if $extension eq ".tar.bz2" or $extension eq ".tbz2" then tar xvfj $filename else if $extension eq ".zip" then unzip $filename end if </pseudo-code>
- Move each extracted file to a specific directory, renaming it if there's a naming collision, and
uudeview does this.
- Remove any duplicate files.
Maybe an MD5sum hash table to check for duplicates?
Jeremy
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