tlug: bash ?

[Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com>]

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tlug note from Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com>
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Hi all,

Could one of you programmer types help me out on this one?

I'm trying to write a bash script that strips the header from
mail files before I print them (XFMail won't do this and often
the header is longer than the message) using ed. I must admit
that the ed man page gave me a headache;-(

ed $1 << EOF
1,/^[]*$/d
w
q
EOF

When I try to use this ed counts the number of lines then exits
with ?

This is happening with bash 1.14.5(1)

Thanks,

Jim S.

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Sent by: Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com>
On: 27-Mar-97 at: 17:32:49 JST
http://www1.harenet.or.jp/~schweiz/
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