Linux Rocks ! wrote:
> So, Id like to extract just the one liner portion of email sent from joker.org
> (ie, I want all the one-liners from all the memail joke of the day messages I
> have, and a "%" to separate each oneliner, and Id like them put in a text
> file, then I can make a fortune database with it, and use it with fortune.)
>
> What would be the best way to do this?
sed -n '/The Famous.*One Liner/,/^From /p' | \
sed -e '/The Famous.*One Liner/d' -e 's/^From .*/%/'
Not quite what you want -- it leaves a blank line at the top of each
fortune.
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Bob Miller K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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