Extracting e-mail address from output file

[gcazian]

I have an output file that contains one very large string, and looks look this:

<who><presence from='username1@myserver.mydomain.com/Exodus' to='username2@myserver.mydomain.com'>

followed by some more non-important data. I want to extract the first e-mail address using sed or awk.

I'm a bit of a novice, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[CaKiwi]

Try this awk program

BEGIN {FS=&quot;'&quot;}
{
sub (/\/.*$/,&quot;&quot;,$2)
print $2
}


CaKiwi

&quot;I love mankind, it's people I can't stand&quot; - Linus Van Pelt

 

[PHV]

<who><presence from='username1@myserver.mydomain.com/Exodus' to='username2@myserver.mydomain.com'>
With sed, you can try this:

sed -n "/from=/s!.*from='\([^']*\)'.*!\1!p" /path/to/file

Hope This Help
PH.