[OT] Sed issue

[Todd Zullinger]

David G. Miller wrote:
> Why use sed?  How about:
> 
> cat file | head --lines=-3 | awk '{if (/-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----/) 
> exit; print $0;}'
> 
> The head --lines=-3 prints the file after skipping the first three 
> lines.

Skipping the first three lines isn't reliable as a PGP message may
contain more or less lines after the -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----,
there might be no Hash: header, could be multiple Comment: headers,
etc.  It would work in the specific case Dan asked about though.

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