HTML to text - command line

[BIS]

Hallo,

Anybody know of an easy way to convert HTML to text? I am trying to modify an email body, but looking at it from the command line it looks like:

RGVhciBjdXN0b21lciBjYXJlIHJlcHJlc2VudGF0aXZlLAoKQSBjdXN0b21lciBoYXMgc2VudCBh
IHF1ZXN0aW9uIHZpYSB0aGUgSW50ZXJuZXQgd2l0aCB0aGUgZm9sbG93aW5nIGRldGFpbHM6CgpD
dXN0b21lciBpbmZvcm1hdGlvbgotLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLQpGaXJzdCBuYW1l
ICAgICA6IFN0ZWZmZWIKTGFzdCBuYW1lICAgICAgOiBCaXNnYWFyZApPcmdhbml6YXRpb24gICA6
IC0KQWRkcmVzcyAgICAgICAgOiBTdGF0aW9uc3BsZWluIDExQwpQb3N0YWwgQ29kZSAgICA6IDc1
MTEgSkQKQ2l0eSAgICAgICAgICAgOiBFbnNjaGVkZQpDb3VudHJ5ICAgICAgICA6IEdCCkUtbWFp
bCAgICAgICAgIDogc3RlZmZlbl9iaXNnYWFyZEBzZW50by5jb20KVGVsZXBob25lICAgICAgOiAw
NTM0ODYwMDAwCkFnZSAgICAgICAgICAgIDogLQpHZW5kZXIgICAgICAgICA6IC0KU3ViamVjdCAg
ICAgICAgOiBNT05JVE9SU19QQ19QRVJJUEhFUkFMU19HUi1MQ0RfTU9OSVRPUlNfQ0EtTENEX01P

However, looking at it through a webmail client it looks fine.

 

[thedaver]

That looks MIME encoded not HTML.

The content line that preceeds the gobbledygook you showed should indicate the method of encoding.

D.E.R. Management - IT Project Management Consulting

http://www.dermanagement.com/

 

[BIS]

he, you are right:


Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
X-ReMailer: CARE MRS v2.0
X-MRS-Original-Sender: me@anotherdomain.com
X-Qmail-Scanner-1.23: added fake MIME-Version header
MIME-Version: 1.0


Can this be converted into something useful?

 

[thedaver]

Be careful that you don't unmime a virus or something insidious.

I think uudecode or some command line critter will unfap that content string. Can't say I've done it before, but it's obviously a common function. Google it?

D.E.R. Management - IT Project Management Consulting

http://www.dermanagement.com/

 

[BIS]

thedaver, thanks. google it is then, sometimes I post in hope of a quick answer

 

[BIS]

Just closing this case. reformime worked for me.