thanks anni*
I can't seem to get your code to work unfortunately, it just spits out
root@ubuntu:/home/babo/Desktop/spider_proj # grep -ri 'mailto:.*string' . | sed 's/\([^:]*\):.*mailto:\([^" >]*\).*/\1: \2/i'
./spider: \([^
./spider: \([^
... also, I'm looking to parse a file that matches...