The program below can take one or more plain text files as input. It works with python2 and python3.
Let's say we have two files that may contain email addresses:
- file_a.txt
foo bar
ok [email protected] sup
[email protected],wyd
hello world!
RP rohanp
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July 24, 2025 18:46
A python script for extracting email addresses from text files.You can pass it multiple files. It prints the email addresses to stdout, one address per line.For ease of use, remove the .py extension and place it in your $PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin/) to run it like a built-in command.