#!/bin/bash #extracts base64 attachment form mailbox file #if jpg and decodes it into a file based on #subject name and date dir="~/mail/new/*" for i in `ls $dir`; do ext="$(grep 'Content-Type: image/jpeg;' $i |cut -d\" -f2|cut -d\. -f2)" if [ $ext ] then sub="$(grep "^Subject:" $i|cut -d\: -f2| sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//')" file="$(echo "${sub}_$(date +%s).jpg")" echo "$file" sed '1,/X-Attachment-Id/d' $i |\ tail -n +2|\ sed '$ d'|\ base64 --decode > "$file" fi done