sed -e '1,/---cut here---/d' < $patch | sh -x
is what I use, but there's a wide variety of 'cut here'
lines in the 2.11BSD patches, so I have had to taylor to
each patch.
Yep and you usually only running one or two at a time. Your work As Wernflow of a applying a lot of patches is a tad different. As Warner said, there were plenty of different shar/unshars back in the day.
Just remember to thank Mary Ann for uuencode/decode which started it all ;-)
Clem