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From: mer6g@uvaarpa.virginia.edu (Marc E. Rouleau)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Suggestion for shar file posting
Message-ID: <4@uvaarpa.virginia.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 88 15:56:27 GMT
References: <661@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: mer6g@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU.UUCP (Marc E. Rouleau)
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In article <661@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> creps@silver.UUCP (Steve Creps) writes:
>
> [ a suggestion about making shar file postings easily unpackable by prepending
> a # sign to each description/comment line at the beginning ]
>

If you want to unpack the file "someprog.sh", for example,

	sed -n '/^#/,$p' someprog.sh | /bin/sh

will do the trick.  If you want to unpack a bunch of files, you can use the
following:

	for i in someprog??.sh   # for example
	do
		sed -n '/^#/,$p' $i | /bin/sh
	done