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From: ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: stripping off before ----
Summary: just use ed
Message-ID: <2076@munnari.oz.au>
Date: 11 Sep 89 03:30:24 GMT
References: <1126@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
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In article <1126@eagle.wesleyan.edu>, dkonerding@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
> .. I'm using ed and vi, ... I need to get rid of everything before the
> "---------" line.  How can I accomplish this ...

	1,/^--*$/d

Delete from line 1 down to a line which consists entirely of dashes and
contains at least one dash.  More generally, you may want "unshar", a
version of which was posted in 1988 by Bill Davidsen (davidsen@sixhub.uucp)
as part of his "cshar" package.