Shinji Kuwayama

I occasionally have to search log files for email addresses. Here’s the command I use to extract them all out quickly into another file.
perl -wne’while(/[\w\.\-]+@[\w\.\-]+\w+/g){print “$&\n”}’ original.txt | sort -u > extracted_emails.txt
There’s probably room for improvement here—any ideas, please comment!

Basecamp makes things easy, and I love it. Here’s an odd example though: Basecamp makes it incredibly easy to post the wrong link to a Writeboard—one which prompts for a mysterious password that no one knows.
I know how to avoid this mistake and in a moment, so will you!
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