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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Important new program: cleanit.c
Message-ID: <3498@solo10.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 5 Oct 89 01:51:05 GMT
References: <3492@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
\...	clean(stdin, stdout);
\...		clean(in, out, p);

Bug!  clean() isn't a varargs function.  Even thou shalt use lint, Mr T.!

And why write a 73 line C program when a 17 line shell script can do the
task equally fast?
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:

CUT_LINE="--------------------"

SED="
	1,/^$CUT_LINE/d
	/^$CUT_LINE/,\$d
"

test $# = 0 && exec sed "$SED"

for i
do
	backup=`expr "$i" : '\(.............\)' \| "$i"`'#'
	mv "$i" "$backup" &&
		sed "$SED" < "$backup" > "$i"
done
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   Did Andy Tanenbaum get his programming   |Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam: 
instruction from a Cereal box?  (Sam McCrea)|maart@cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!maart