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From: rzi@philpav.UUCP (Roman Zielinski)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Automated extraction of programs from c.b.i.p postings.
Summary: a little better extraction....
Message-ID: <397@philpav.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 90 15:20:25 GMT
References: <5213@castle.ed.ac.uk> <3994@trantor.harris-atd.com>
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In article <3994@trantor.harris-atd.com>, sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) writes:
> In article <5213@castle.ed.ac.uk> elee24@castle.ed.ac.uk (H Bruce) writes:
> >Does anyone have an automated way of extracting programs from the postings in
> >comp.binaries.ibm.pc ?
> 	massuud
> 
> which I have aliased to:
> 
> massuud: 	 aliased to cat * | sed /^END/,/^BEGIN/d | uudecode
> 

	Yes,  it's  fine  but  what about  the posting  garbage in the
	beginning and at the end of the messages?

	The following command string removes also text up to the first
	BEGIN and after END

cat * | sed /^END/,/^BEGIN/d | sed 1,/^BEGIN/d | sed /^END/,\$\d | uudecode

(/^END/,$d must be spelled /^END/,\$\d to avoid shell interpretation of $d)

				R.

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