Shell Programming and Scripting

this is just a hint

please dont use this as such

Code:

firstfile=`echo $output | sed 's/\(.*\) \(.*\)/\1/'`
secondfile=`echo $output | sed 's/\(.*\) \(.*\)/\2/'`

..just a followup, all in one step.

Code:

output="file1path file2path"
eval $(sed 's/\(.*\) \(.*\)/file1=\1 file2=\2/' <<< $output)

thanks everyone (especially danmero )

case closed

The solutions posted so far fail to cope with the = followed by newlines part of the encoding. Also there are other characters which might or might not be encoded using quoted-printable. I would recommend that you split the processing into two steps: decoding the QP, and extracting the information you want.

Here's an attempt at defusing the QP encoding:

Code:

perl -0777 -pe 's/=\n//g; s/=([0-9A-F]{2})/chr(oct("0x$1"))/ge;' inputfile

You could pipe the output from that to what you already have (use it instead of the tr command you had before) or extend the Perl script to also extract the information you require:

Code:

perl -0777 -ne 's/=\n//g; s/=([0-9A-F]{2})/chr(oct("0x$1"))/ge;
    while (m%<a href="(afp://myserver\.[^"]*)"%g) { print "file", ++$i, "=\"$1\"\n"}' inputfile