How to eliminate attachments in TW?

[Alexandru Cioba]

Hi to all,

I want to get rid of attachemnts included in text files, such as:

Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="IMG_7552.JPG"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="IMG_7552.JPG"

/9j/4TtTRXhpZgAASUkqAAgAAAAJAA8BAgAGAAAAegAAABABAgAXAAAAgAAA

ABIBAwABAAAAAQAAABoBBQABAAAAoAAAABsBBQABAAAAqAAAACgBAwABAAAA

AgAAADIBAgAUAAAAsAAAABMCAwABAAAAAgAAAGmHBAABAAAAxAAAALQWAABD

YW5vbgBDYW5vbiBFT1MgNDAwRCBESUdJVEFMAAAAAAAAAAAAAEgAAAABAAAA

SAAAAAEAAAAyMDA5OjA3OjA5IDIyOjM0OjU2ABwAmoIFAAEAAAAaAgAAnYIF

Is any method to do that? Thank you

[Thomas Fischer]

Hello Alexandru,

there are really no „attachments to text files“, I suppose you have an email and are looking at the text version of it.

Basically, there are ways to cut pieces from a file, in your case it might start with
> Content-Type: image/jpeg;
The question is, where will it end? Do you have a unique string that comes after the base64 block that is easily recognizable?
Then something like

Find Content-Type: image/jpeg;(?s).+?<end marker>
Replace with empty
using grep

might do the job.

Else you may rely on the length of the lines, but this is obviously error-prone:

Find (^.{60}\n)+
Replace with empty
using grep

leaving the content info strings intact.

Cheers
Thomas

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[Alexandru Cioba]

Thank you!

The second works well for me :)