Re: deleting that maillist footer

"Sven Guckes [email protected] [sed-users]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.editors.sed.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Rakesh Sharma <[email protected]> [2016-01-19 13:57]:
> One way to accomplish the pruning can be the following:
>
>  sed -e '
>     /^[-][-]*$/{
>        $q;N;$q;N
>        /\nPosted by[:] Sven Guckes <maillists-yahoo@guckes[.]net>\n[-][-]*$/d
>  }
>  '
>  YMMV in case of the regex for the "Posted by" line.

well, i got this now in my display_filter sed file:

# by Rakesh Sharma [email protected]
/^--*$/{
$q;N;$q;N
/\nPosted by:.*\n--*$/d
}

that works!  now i wont have to see those lines
in sed-users mails until i reply to them, ;)
thanks, Rakesh! :)

now to understand it all.. "$q"?

my biggest gripe with sed syntax is that
you have to use literal line breaks.
so much about "one-liners".  *sigh*

ps: how does yahoogroups staff actually
call that "--- Posted by: ---" thing?

Sven
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