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From: jhc@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: sed question
Keywords: sed, regexp, Pnews, Rnmail
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Date: 27 Jan 89 04:05:47 GMT
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Reply-To: jhc@Vax5.CIT.Cornell.EDU (James H. Cloos, Jr.)
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Hello.

Our implementation of the news software, because it is run in Eunice on top
of VAX/VMS, has some shortcomings.  One of these, is that, when using Pnews
or Rnmail, the Reply-To: line does not include your real name, just a pair
of parenthesis.  I would like to add a line to my personalised copies of
Pnews and Rnmail to automate adding in the realname info.  Unfortunately,
I'm having difficulty getting the sed line correct.  Specifically, I want
sed to find the line that starts Reply-To: and then replace any instances of
() with ($REALNAME) where $REALNAME is the value of the environmental
variable REALNAME, and where the parenthesis are in the file.  Perhaps it
would be more understandable liek this:
what we have:	\050\051
what we want:	\050($REALNAME)\051
where: \nnn is the character specified by nnn ascii, nnn in octal
and:   ($CCC) is the value of the env. variable named CCC.

As an alternative, I would accept having a specific string inserted between
the parenthesis on the Reply-To: line rather than the value of the env.
variable.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance for any help in this.

P.S.	Pnews & Rnamil are written in sh, for those unfamiliar w/ those 2
	scripts.

-JimC
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