[clug] Ever received a .dat file from an <other OS> user?

Andrew Janke a.janke at gmail.com
Thu Jan 14 22:47:07 MST 2010


Or worse multiple .dat files split across a few messages?

And then went digging all over the web trying to find something that
will decode something looking like this:

---
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
	boundary="DC_BOUND_PRE_<1263538550.000074e0ca36>"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--DC_BOUND_PRE_<12635380.0074e0ca36>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Scan Date: 15.01.2010 14:55:50 (+0800)
--DC_BOUND_PRE_<1263538550.000074e0ca36>
Content-Type: application/pdf; name="20100115145550430.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
	filename="20100115145550430.pdf"

JVBERi0xLjQKJRamipIKNCAwIG9iago8PC9UeXBlL1hPYmplY3QKL1N1YnR5cGUvSW1hZ2UK
L1dpZHRoIDI0ODAKL0hlaWdodCAzNTA4Ci9CaXRzUGVyQ29tcG9uZW50IDEKL0NvbG9yU3Bh
---

Well I just did (and have had this issue in the past but never found a
solution as base64 and uudecode don't do what you'd think) then I
found mpack/munpack..

   $ sudo apt-get install mpack

   $ cat part\ ?_?.dat | munpack
   munpack: reading from standard input
   20100115145550430.pdf (application/pdf)

Ahhh..


(Brought to you by the "things I didn't know but I'm sure others all
know this already" series of emails as I don't have a linux blog.)


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Andrew Janke
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