Re: Scanning out the "For your newsgroups file: " line

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From: Dr A. N. Walker
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:04

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In article <1993Jan25.070159.16581@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
writes:
>And so it is, if you use awk rather than sed.  In new awk:
>	awk '/^For your newsgroups file:/ {getline; print; exit}'

	sed '1,/^For your newsgroups file:/d; q'

works on all the machines I have access to, and is shorter.

-- 
Andy Walker, Maths Dept., Nott'm Univ., UK.
anw@maths.nott.ac.uk

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From: anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker)
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Subject: Re: Scanning out the "For your newsgroups file: " line
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Date: 26 Jan 93 16:04:53 GMT
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