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From: ken@boring.UUCP
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Subject: Re: leading comments
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Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 12:22:09 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 20 12:22:09 1985
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In article <318@luke.UUCP> itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List) writes:
>I'd like to suggest that when we put some commentary at the beginning,
>each line be preceded by the shell comment character (#).

This is a repost of a shell script that will solve the problem if every
shar'ed source has a line beginning with # at the top of the archive.
From rn I just have to say: "| (cd sourcedir; unshar)".

#! /bin/sh
# unshar - pipe shar part of input through sh
# Ignore lines before first "#" comment starting in first column.
# Input is either $1 or stdin.
sed -n '/^#/,$ p' ${1-} | exec sh
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