truncate part of a variable

[alarge23]

I have a variable called $EMAIL in my script which contains an email address in the following format:

"Billy Bob" <123456789@server.company.com>

mailx doesn't like the spaces in the email address. The email will still get to the person, but I receive errors. I want to truncate the variable $EMAIL so that it contains the value:
123456789@server.company.com

I am new to unix scripting and have struggled finding a way to do this. How can this be done?

 

[LKBrwnDBA]

There may be more elegant ways, but this will do it:

var="\"Billy Bob\" <123456789@server.company.com>"
email=$(echo $var|cut -d\< -f2|cut -d\> -f1)

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[alarge23]

that worked. Thanks!