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Advanced Cgi Programming and Server Administration

FREE CGI SCRIPT

LISTGRAB.PL

It's a perl script that can build a mailing list by grabbing addresses from any kind of file. It will work from the command line on any Unix or NT server with perl 5.

It will also weed-out duplicate addresses from your list. You can merge many lists together in multiple passes if you wish.

The lists created by this application will have one address per line, with a linefeed as the return character. These lists will be usable by most bulk mailer programs.

INSTALLING THE SCRIPT

There's no configurating to do with this one. Just install it anywhere you wish, and launch it from the command line. If you don't have shell access, you can't use this script.

USING THE SCRIPT

These instructions are also contained within the script itself

From the command line, via telnet or on your workstation, do:

perl listgrab.pl source [dest]

...where source is the full path or relative path to the file which you want to grab addresses from, and dest is the file you want the addresses found appended to. If the destination file does not exist, it will be created. If you don't specify a destination file, one will be created using the source filename with the extension .lst.

If you just want an existing list cleaned-up of duplicates and illegal addresses, you can also use the script in the same manner as above. You may make the destination file the same as the source. If you do the latter, it goes without saying that your original file will be overwritten.

download text version of the script here