Sed extract email addresses from file

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Viewed 3k times. Improve this question. Using Regular Expressions is probably the best way. This regex match Alban Thank you! But my question isn't really with regards to the email address. I'm trying to understand how to use sed and also understand why my command above isn't working. I don't have enough knowledge of the language to point out what is bad on your code. It's ppossible with sed,awk , perl and so on, It's related to your job!

You really need sed? Why not use grep or egrep for this type of situation? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Cyrus Cyrus John 2 2 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. Arcege Arcege It captures everything which is not a right-side square bracket. Correct if there is the one string occurance in line. Costas Like I said, a simple approach and based on the total amount of information provided by the OP Costas Sure, but that no longer qualifies as "simple".

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Extract email addresses from big file. The two that are omitted have digits just beside the " " so it looks like I was close but not quite right on how much awk would match with this RE.

Great catch peripatetic! Thanks for the addition, and welcome to The Scripts! Jul 27 '07 reply HostQ8i 3 guys can this perl script be used on websites? May 21 '08 reply gpraghuram 1, Expert 1GB How would I use a script like this on a group of files that are in a directory to retrieve email addresses from all of them?

There are several ways to get the capability. You could install cygwin, which is a port of the bash shell with utilities including sort. Then you should be able to use the original one-liner. If you search for "windows unix sort" you should find some advice which I have not tested on other ports of the sort utility. Regards Angelo Sep 9 '10 reply Exenfris 2 Also what about emails like Sep 9 '10 reply Halle 1 Hello, This one-liner is great!

Jan 28 '11 reply MaGiK 1 Hi, I know its been a while since last post, but I couldn't just leave it with out an answer.

File: emailtest. The "for" loop simply writes "words" from the original file to separate lines in an intermediate file. Obviously further filters could be added, but this one is not there yet. Best Regards, Paul Feb 15 '12 reply mdnuts 1 Excellent script I found one error if an email address has two consecutive dots in it. Expand Select Wrap Line Numbers perl extractemail. Cancel Changes. Python filter valid email addresses 2 posts views Thread by Hoang last post: by.

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Lightness Races in Orbit 3 3 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. Heijs7 Heijs7 39 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges. What emails do you want? Only those that are user domain. Why do you want pepito. How about fulano domain. Are you trying to match only addresses whose domain is foo. Yes I just want the emails with user domain. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Avinash Raj I would use egrep instead.