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MU EXTRACT
NAME
mu-extract - display and save message parts (attachments), and open them with other tools.
SYNOPSIS
mu [common-options] extract [options] [<file>]
mu [common-options] extract [options] <file> <pattern>
DESCRIPTION
mu extract is the mu sub-command for extracting MIME-parts (e.g., attachments) from mail messages. The sub-command works on message files, and does not require the message to be indexed in the database.
For attachments, the file name used when saving it is the name of the attachment in the message. If there is no such name, or when saving non-attachment MIME-parts, a name is derived from the message-id of the message.
If you specify a regular express pattern as the second argument, all attachments with filenames matching that pattern will be extracted. The regular expressions are basic PCRE, and are case-sensitive by default; see pcre(3) for more details.
Without any options, mu extract simply outputs the list of leaf MIME-parts in the message. Only `leaf' MIME-parts (including RFC822 attachments) are considered, multipart/* etc. are ignored.
Without a filename parameter, mu extract reads a message from standard-input. In
that case, you cannot use the second, <pattern> parameter as this would be
ambiguous; instead, use the --matches option.
EXTRACT OPTIONS
-a, –save-attachments
save all MIME-parts that look like attachments.
–save-all
save all non-multipart MIME-parts.
–parts=<parts>
only consider the following numbered parts (comma-separated list). The numbers for the parts can be seen from running mu extract without any options but only the message file.
–target-dir=<dir>
save the parts in the target directory rather than the current working directory.
–overwrite
overwrite existing files with the same name; by default overwriting is not allowed.
-u,–uncooked
by default, mu transforms the attachment filenames a bit (such as by replacing
spaces by dashes); with this option, leave that to the minimum for creating
a legal filename in the target directory.
–matches=<pattern>
Attachments with filenames matching the pattern will be extracted. The regular expressions are basic PCRE, and are case-sensitive by default; see pcre(3) for more details.
–play
Try to `play' (open) the attachment with the default application for the particular file type. On MacOS, this uses the open program, on other platforms it uses xdg-open. You can choose a different program by setting the MU_PLAY_PROGRAM environment variable.
EXAMPLES
To display information about all the MIME-parts in a message file:
$ mu extract msgfile
To extract MIME-part 3 and 4 from this message, overwriting existing files with the same name:
$ mu extract --parts=3,4 --overwrite msgfile
To extract all files ending in `.jpg' (case-insensitive):
$ mu extract msgfile '.*\.jpg'
To extract an mp3-file, and play it in the default mp3-playing application:
$ mu extract --play msgfile 'whoopsididitagain.mp3'
when reading from standard-input, you need --matches, so:
$ cat msgfile | mu extract --play --matches 'whoopsididitagain.mp3'
SEE ALSO
mu(1)