May
14
2012
14
2012
BASH Magic: Converting Username Lists Into A Usable Format
An article by connection
Recently a buddy of mine was on a pentest and he saw a username list in the format of Smith, John@gmail.com and while this was all fine and dandy the emails were actually stored as jsmith@gmail.com. I’ve encountered similar situations so I decided to code up a quick BASH oneliner to help him, myself and anyone else who encounters things like this in the future.
Command after the fold
cat FILE |sed -E 's/^(.*)\,.(.).*(\@.*)/\2\1\3/' |tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"
Given the following sample data:
Smith, John@gmail.com
Doe, Jane@hotmail.com
Here is the output:
jsmith@gmail.com
jdoe@hotmail.com
I hope this helps you guys out.
Keep your hacks up and your head down.
~Connection
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