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25 lines
780 B
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#! /bin/sh
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# Strips off the header from a mail/News message i.e. till the first
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# empty line
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# Mark Moraes, University of Toronto
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# ==> These comments added by author of this document.
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if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
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# ==> If no command line args present, then works on file redirected to stdin.
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sed -e '1,/^$/d' -e '/^[ ]*$/d'
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# --> Delete empty lines and all lines until
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# --> first one beginning with white space.
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else
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# ==> If command line args present, then work on files named.
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for i do
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sed -e '1,/^$/d' -e '/^[ ]*$/d' $i
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# --> Ditto, as above.
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done
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fi
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# ==> Exercise for the reader: Add error checking and other options.
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# ==>
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# ==> Note that the small sed script repeats, except for the arg passed.
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# ==> Does it make sense to embed it in a function? Why or why not?
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