Wednesday, March 4, 2009

How to open "noname" attachment in Linux

Got this off somewhere. It should work in Unix or Mac too!

1. Save the attachment from Gmail to the desktop, should be noname.
2. Edit it to remove the small MIME attachment near the top and bottom, also remove all the MIME header information and the MIME delimiter at the bottom of the file. What should be left with is a huge continuous chunk of text.
3. Run the following command...
openssl enc -d -base64 -in noname -out usefulfile
4. Open the file "usefulfile" and continue with life.

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