Re: [nmh-workers] burst behavior

[Paul Fox]

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
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