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From: protofan@motcid.UUCP (Mike S. Protofanousis)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: uuconvert
Message-ID: <4660@cocoa7.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 91 22:31:44 GMT
References: <4654@cocoa7.UUCP>
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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> I once had a program which could uudecode a file which was split into 
> many mail messages.  This program would automatically remove any mail
> headears and any trailing blank lines.  I am not sure if it would
> handle a sigature.

Well, I discovered that sed could do the job!
Here is a one line sed script that can handle a bunch of mail files
and uudecode them.  It even works with .signatures that start with '--'.

sed -e '1,/^$/d' -e '/^--$/,/^$/d' -e '/^$/,/^$/d' $* | uudecode

sed and uudecode need to be in your path (or you can add paths to the above).

Put this command into a file.  For example, call it uuconvert.
Then do chmod +x uuconvert.  That's it.  You are now ready to use uuconvert.

It can be used in two ways:

	uuconvert file1 file2 file3 etc...
or
	cat file1 file2 file3 etc... | uuconvert


It's not too smart.  It can work with generic signatures as long as
they are preceded by at least one blank line.

-- 
Mike Protofanousis 
msp@pronet.chi.il.us
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