On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 10:53:02AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 14Sep2016 16:12, Are Troi <areemt...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Last night at a technical talk I lamented the loss around 5 years ago > >from Fedora of command-line tools to extract email attachments from a > >BASH script and a colleague told me Mutt can do this. > > If you mean the MIME tools mpack and munpak, I still use them. (On a Mac, > where the Macports package is called mpack). > > Wouldn't you be better off just fetching and buiulding them?
tried ripmime and munpak about a year ago to save all attachments from a large MBOX and it was everything but a hasslefree experience. Various attachments were missed or not processed, some segfaults. Those tools are apparently not as robust as mutt is. Ended up splitting the MBOX by formail cat MBOX | formail -ds sh -c 'cat > msg.$FILENO' and processing messages by ripmime -v --name-by-type --verbose-contenttype --verbose-defects -i "$f" .. and hoping not much was missed by this apporach. Richard -- Name and OpenPGP keys available from pgp key servers
