NAME¶

mgrep - print lines that match patterns in mime-encoded files

SYNOPSIS¶

mgrep [-Q|-X] [GREP_OPTION...] PATTERN [FILE...]
mgrep [-Q|-X] [GREP_OPTION...] -e PATTERNS ... [FILE...]
mgrep [-Q|-X] [GREP_OPTION...] -f PATTERN_FILE ... [FILE...]

DESCRIPTION¶

Mgrep ican be used to invoke the grep command on the decoded content of BASE64 or quoted-printable mime-encoded files. Beside the options -Q and -X all options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the standard input is mime-decoded and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are mime-decoded and fed to grep.

As experimental feature: if the input files is in mbox format mgrep may detect the boundaries used for the mime encoded messages as well as attachments and fed the decoded content of those (but not the header) to grep.

OPTIONS¶

-h , --help

Displays this help (as well as the help of original grep) and exit.

-Q , --quoted-printable

Assume quoted-printable encoding.

-X , --base64

Assume base64 encoding (default).

SEE ALSO¶

grep(1)

STANDARDS¶

LICENSES¶

GNU GPL v2
MIT -- mainly the MIME decoding part.

AUTHOR¶

Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>