Simple question...

[Mark Benard]

In article <3013 at uceng.UC.EDU> schriste at uceng.UC.EDU (Steven V. Christensen) writes:
>Excuse the simple question, but I have a bunch of shar files that
>I want to unshar. Unfortunately all 20+ have the mail headers on them.
>In SED, how would I pipe the files to remove everything before the
>"#!/bin/sh" ? Also, how would I get everything between the "#!/bin/sh"
>and the "exit 0" at the end (for those mailers which append a .sig)?

Try using the unshar utility.  This is exactly what it was designed to
do.  It will strip the header and other leading junk and, if there is
an 'exit 0', it will also correctly strip the .signature.
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