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Hard one for the gurus - Extracting files from a uuencoded message

2002-08-14 10:47:12

Just teasing - I know this is like ice cream for the gurus ;-)

Hello there,

I would like to request your help: 

I do receive virus definition files updates from the address
subscribe(_at_)drweb(_dot_)ru on a weekly basis.

The only difficulty I am facing is that the files are UUENCODED into
the come as the body of the message...something like this:

begin 644 drw42814.zip
M4$L#!!0````(`(`C"RW445!KT0P``&`.```,````1%)7-#(X,30N5D1"G9$'
M4!-:FX9#8(_at_)$C14H0I,0"H80:;'1""46D(T7$8$(+!!**=$(7D(X4I440D-Y"
M:*%7$11!F(_at_)6EB87>+J!DN;/N[-W9_]][9]^9,^>9]_U.^XX&4?(6U(_at_)[JC25Z
<snip>
...
...
</snip>
end


There is exactly one empty line before "begin", then there is one empty
line after "end", afterwhich there is some text that I would not want.


I would like to use procmail to automatically extract the files for me
into some directory. How do I extract the relevant part of the body, pass
it to uudecode and get the files saved??

:0B
* ^From:(_dot_)*subscribe(_at_)drweb(_dot_)ru
|uudecose some_args
somedir/


Thanking you in advance



-Wash

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