Extract email addresses using vim

Question

I have a large log file that contains email addresses mixed in with some other content. Each line contains an email address as well as some other text, like:

I can match the email addresses in vim but I'd like to remove all the content that doesn't match an email address, leaving me with a single address per line. How can I do that with a regex search?

Using `grep --only-matching` is probably the easiest method – Peter Rincker Jan 16 '15 at 17:42 — Peter Rincker, Jan 16 '15 at 17:42

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 16 '15 at 17:09

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if you have already successfully matched the email address, you can do :

:%s/.\{-}\(yourPattern\).*/\1/g

for example:

%s/.\{-}\(\S\+@\S\+\).*/\1/

here the \S\+@\S\+ is the pattern. for sure it is not the good try for matching an email address.

answered Jan 16 '15 at 17:09

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