On 2008-03-16, superdu (nobody@cares) <superdu> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
> Being a beginner in Linux I hit this problem which I know can be
> solved by scripting. I recovered a bunch of files from a disk crash
> that contains all my emails but they were in 2 mb chunks and in no
> particular demarkation. So i combined them into one huge file.
>
> To break them into smaller messages I need to search for a line say
> "---Next_Part ...blah bla ----
> an take everything between the two lines and create the new text
> file as 00000????.txt. Thats all that need to be done in order for
> me to read these email or resend them to myself. Sorry if I am
> missing the obvious but as I said my knowledge in scripting is very
> limited. Like upto shebang These emails are urgent otherwise I
> would have spent some time to learn a bit more scripting.
>
> Any is much appreciated.
>
> Regards.
>
> superdu
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> Just a noob
>
If you have formail, you might use it to split the mail files.