ralph wrote: > Hi Paul, > > > An obvious fix (for me) is to pre-process the digest, and > > hyphen-escape all lines which follow the "END OF DIGEST" line and > > which begin with a '-', by adding an extra '- ' at the start of line. > > If I do that, then burst will do the right thing, and ignore all of > > the trailer text. > > Isn't it simpler to > > sed '/^- *END OF [^ ]* DIGEST/q' > > if you're preprocessing? If your sed has -i then you could run it on > the digest first to do the change in situ.
Yes, it certainly would be easier. (Too many trees -- where's the forest??) In fact, a few minutes before posting I thought to myself, "I'll bet Ralph replies with a one-liner for this." :-) paul =---------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 71.2 degrees) -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
