[expert] OT: regular expression help

2003-07-23 Thread John Haywood
Sorry to ask here -it´s just that I know someone here can fix me up (shameless grovel!!). I´m in a bit of a bind, trying to recover a corrupt file for a client. The first issue is that the file is 1.8gig, so I´m wondering if I´m going to have problems with cat |grep >outputfile.txt or is

Re: [expert] OT: regular expression help

2003-07-23 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
John Haywood wrote: Sorry to ask here -it´s just that I know someone here can fix me up (shameless grovel!!). I´m in a bit of a bind, trying to recover a corrupt file for a client. The first issue is that the file is 1.8gig, so I´m wondering if I´m going to have problems with cat |grep >outputf

Re: [expert] OT: regular expression help

2003-07-24 Thread John Haywood
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 01:28 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > John Haywood wrote: [SNIPPY] > >I´m in a bit of a bind, trying to recover a corrupt file for a client. > >The first issue is that the file is 1.8gig, so I´m wondering if I´m going > > to have problems with cat |grep >outputfile.txt > > D

Re: [expert] OT: regular expression help

2003-07-24 Thread Damon Lynch
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 22:01, John Haywood wrote: > The file in question is a corrupt Microsoft Entourage message file. It is > 1.8Gig in size (approx). I need to step through it and convert it to an mbox > format file, by searching for patterns such as : > > received: from > Received: from >

Re: [expert] OT: regular expression help

2003-07-24 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 06:01, John Haywood wrote: > [SNIPPY] > > Thanks for that, Brant. Let me state as exactly as possible what I am trying > to do: > > The file in question is a corrupt Microsoft Entourage message file. It is > 1.8Gig in size (approx). I need to step through it and convert i