Re: How to convert <binaryGlowMixedWithASCII> to pure ASCII

On 2025-05-04, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:

I am often faced with this problem.
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I have a string like (this was the "From" address of an email I recently received):
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    =?utf-8?B?UGhpbGxpcCBHw7xudGVy?= <s69pguen@uni-bonn.de>
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Note that this may not be the ideal example, but it is the one closest to
hand.  Here's another example:
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    TF-8?q?They’re_telling_us_something_about_something_ok?
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when it should have been just:
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    They're telling us something about something ok?
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My question is: Is there a (Unix/Linux) tool that will reliably fix this?
I.e. convert the binary glop format into the desired, pure ASCII, format.

Try piping it into the following command:

perl -CS -MEncode -ne 'print decode("MIME-Header", $_)'

For example:

chuck@sigma:~:10001% echo '=?utf-8?B?UGhpbGxpcCBHw7xudGVy?=' | perl -CS -MEncode -ne 'print decode("MIME-Header", $_)'
Phillip Günter

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