Re: tlug: bash ?

[Jason Molenda <crash@example.com>]

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tlug note from Jason Molenda <crash@example.com>
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> I'm trying to write a bash script that strips the header from
> mail files before I print them 


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'

will do what you want, I think.  It still leaves a blank line at the
beginning of the output stream which seems inelegant to me, but it
becomes less aesthetic to deal with it so I leave that as an exercise. :)


Jason
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