Re: tlug: bash ?

[Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com>]

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tlug note from Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com>
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On 27-Mar-97 Jason Molenda wrote:
>So you're trying to remove all lines until the first empty
>line, right? sed is the command you need.  Sed does all! :)
>
> cat foo | sed '1,/^$/d'

This indeed does the job, and I would add:

cat foo | sed '1,/^$/d' >foo2

to save the file for later reading/editing. 

I like Jim T's suggestion to pipe it to lpr and:

>Even better if you can stick such a filter into your mailer's
>save or print function.  (Or maybe even make a special printer
>entry with such a default filter?)

I'll work on that one tonight after the kids go to bed.

Thanks,

Jim S.

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Sent by: Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com>
On: 27-Mar-97 at: 19:15:01 JST
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