[Tfug] grep question [was find | grep]

[Jeff Breadner]

> ...ummm, now that all the terms/lines containing '@' are in one file 
> (which is fine in itself), is there any way I could extract the string 
> of characters containing the '@' symbol, but only print those 
> characters in the string between the '=' symbol and the ')' symbol???
>
> and output that into a nice text file with commas in between?????
>
> I suppose I can write my own script someday.
>
> :|
>
> Here's are two sample lines of output:
>
> (145=lasalledre at aol.com)(146=lasalledre)(14D=438f81ad)(147=2f)(A1
> (152=marc diMinno)(142=marcdiminno at hotmail.com)(153=43919ff2)(143=2e
>
> which would be perfect to see like this:
>
> ...
>
> lasalledre at aol.com,
> marcdimminno at hotmail.com,
>
> ...

I tried writing this in sed, but I'm far from being a sed master, and 
couldn't get it going.

This is rough, but should mostly work:

cat inputfile | grep -o "[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]*@[A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.[A-Za-z]*"

On your sample input file this returns:
lasalledre at aol.com
marcdiminno at hotmail.com


cheers
  Jeff