Question

I need an expression using SED or similar that will allow to retrieve text between quotes or greater-than and less-than symbols. I tried a few variations of SED but could not quite get the output to only list the domains.

Matches: list:"<alumni.lists.org>"
Do this: Apply label "MailingLists" edit     delete
Matches: list:"w3.domain.org"
Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label "MailingLists" edit     delete

Answer 1

try:

Input:

Matches: list:"<alumni.lists.org>"
Do this: Apply label "MailingLists" edit     delete
Matches: list:"w3.domain.org"
Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label "MailingLists" edit     delete

Command:

sed 's/.*"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/;s/<\([^>]*\)>/\1/' file

Output:

alumni.lists.org
MailingLists
w3.domain.org
MailingLists

EDIT:

sed 's/.*"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/;s/<\([^>]*\)>/\1/' file | egrep "\.[a-z]{1,3}$"

Output:

alumni.lists.org
w3.domain.org

HTH Chris