YTNEF(1)

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version 2.1.2 · 5 versions
, in ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing

💖 YTNEF 💖

okay bestie, so this is ytnef, a lil command line cutie from the ytnef-tools family, and she is here to pull files out of TNEF archives. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

ytnef — export files from TNEF archives 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ytnef [+-][afvF] filename [filename [...]]

ytnef -h

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This manual page documents briefly the ytnef program.

This manual page was written for the Debian™ distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. yes, literally, that's the whole reason it exists. someone had to do it and that someone was Debian. 💅

ytnef is a command line utility which allows parsing and extracting the files contained in TNEF attachments, also known as winmail.dat attachments. it's giving "your coworker sent you an attachment and it's a mystery blob" energy, and ytnef is the main character who fixes that. 🔥

✨ OPTIONS ✨

okay so here's the vibe check on the flags: option flags are enabled when preceded by a minus sign and disabled when preceded by a plus sign. so -a turns it on, +a turns it off. cute, right?

  • -a|+a — Enables/disables saving of intermediate files.
  • -f|+f — Enables/disables saving of attachments.
  • -v|+v — Enables/disables verbose output. This option can be specified multiple times to increase/decrease the verbosity level of output. stack them like rings on a finger 💍
  • -F|+F — Enables/disables saving of the message body as RTF.
  • -h — Displays a brief help message. the "help me bestie" button 🫶

👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

Returns the number of files which failed to be parsed.

so if she exits with 0? flawless, no notes. anything else is the count of files that said "not today." 💀

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

  • ytnef -v winmail.dat

Parse winmail.dat with verbose output, don't save files.

  • ytnef -f . winmail.dat

Parse and save all attachments in winmail.dat to the current directory.

  • ytnef -F -f . winmail.dat

Parse and save all attachments in winmail.dat to the current directory, also save the message text to a RTF file.

Copyright © 2020 Ricardo Mones

This manual page was written for the Debian system (but may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

real talk: that license thing means you can copy, distribute, and/or modify this doc under those terms. slay, legally. ⚖️✨

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this is version 2.1.2-1build1, dated 2024-04-18, and it lives in the ytnef-tools corner of the universe. go parse something. 🧚💖🌈

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