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From: tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Combine script (was Re: More silence in comp.binaries.ibm.pc)
Message-ID: <1090@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 4 Aug 89 06:32:52 GMT
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In article <5154@umd5.umd.edu> dschuetz@umd5.umd.edu (David Schuetz) writes:

>As long as we're talking about combine, could somebody please tell me what
>the "sed '/^END/,/^BEGIN/d'" (or whatever) does?

It deletes everything from END-line to BEGIN-line, repeatedly
if there are several such pairs, and in that order only:
it does not delete leading garbage (beginning through 1st BEGIN)
nor trailing (from last END on) - uudecode ignores them, it's
only the junk in the middle that confuses it.

Hope this helps.
-- 
Tapani Tarvainen    (tarvaine@jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)