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Re: Hard one for the gurus - Extracting files from a uuencoded mess age

2002-08-15 12:48:31
* Don Hammond <procmail(_at_)tradersdata(_dot_)com> [20020814 22:53]: wrote:
On 14 Aug, Odhiambo G. Washington wrote:
| * Don Hammond <procmail(_at_)tradersdata(_dot_)com> [20020814 21:57]: wrote:
| [...]
| > 
| > :0b:uue.lock
| > * ^From:(_dot_)*subscribe(_at_)drweb(_dot_)ru
| > *     B ?? ^begin [0-7][0-7][0-7] \/.*
| > *     B ?? ^end$
| > * 1^3 B ?? ^M
| > |uudecode >"/path/to/final/destination/$MATCH"
| 
| Hello Don,
| 
| This recipe gives me a zero-sized zipped file.
| 
| I could do better if it could also unzip the file , in case the recipe
| can get some facelift ;-)
| 

Yes, sorry. As Udi pointed out, uudecode has no standard output. Change
the action line to:

|uudecode -o "/path/to/final/destination/$MATCH"



Cool ;-)

This works, only I don't know how to tell it to go ahead and unzip the $MATCH.




-Wash

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