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Extract/save a mail attachment using bash

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Mar 15, 202699144 views
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Using normal tools (ie, built-ins or commonly-available command-line tools), is it possible, and how to extract/save attachments on emails? For example, say I have a nightly report which arrives via email but is a zip archive of several log files. I want to save all those zips into a backup directo…

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Fix for: Extract/save a mail attachment using bash

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If you're aiming for portability, beware that there are several different versions of and . There's a POSIX command, but with very few requirements. And none of the implementations I have seem to parse attachments anyway. You might have the mpack pa…

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