unloading MSN contacts' mail addrs

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Tuesday, January 22, 2013 a las 02:19:03AM -0600, Kevin Stange escribió:

> On 01/22/2013 02:08 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Is there a way to unload the mail addrs of all my MSN contacts in Pidgin
> > to an ASCII file? This is with 2.10.0 on FreeBSD.
> 
> You can just extract this data from the blist.xml file, in the sense
> that the MSN user IDs are most likely email addresses of those people.

Yeah! UNIX is simple, as always. A simple

$ fgrep '@' blist.xml | fgrep name

does what I want. Thanks for this pointer.

	matthias
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