Extracting ALL of the attachments from a mailing list

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: kclug-bounces at kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces at kclug.org] 
>On Behalf Of Jeremy Turner

>
>
>On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 17:44 -0500, Gerald Combs wrote:
>> Before I start rolling my own solution, does anyone know of 
>a utility or
>> collection of utilities that will
>> 
>>   1) Extract all of the MIME attachments from a mailing list archive,
>
>You might check out uudeview or mpack
>http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/UUDeview/
>No URL for mpack.  In the Debian package, the author says of mpack says
>to use uudeview.
>
>>   2) Extract the files from any archived (tar|zip|rar|...) 
>attachments,
>
>I assume once you extract the files from your mail archives and remove
>any duplicates, it would be trivial to run a loop on all files you
>extracted:
>
><pseudo-code>
>if $extension eq ".tar.gz" or $extension eq ".tgz"
>then
>	tar xvfz $filename
>else if $extension eq ".tar.bz2" or $extension eq ".tbz2"
>then
>	tar xvfj $filename
>else if $extension eq ".zip"
>then
>	unzip $filename
>end if
></pseudo-code>
>
>>   3) Move each extracted file to a specific directory, renaming it if
>>      there's a naming collision, and
>
>uudeview does this.
>
>>   4) Remove any duplicate files.
>
>Maybe an MD5sum hash table to check for duplicates?
>
>Jeremy
>

Wouldn't you want to check for dups. before you extract and mv to a dir?
Or extract to dir., compare to final destination dir. And then mv file.
You may want to compare filenames and dates to keep the newest or oldest
file based on preference.