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@ 1995-04-21 19:00 Mark H. Wilkinson
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From: Mark H. Wilkinson @ 1995-04-21 19:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
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While we're on the subject of mail, here's a command I use fairly regularly
to strip the Received: lines out of mail headers. Obviously you can apply
it to all your mailing list archives using the X command, hence freeing
up lots of disk space.

,y/^[ 	]*\n/g/^From .*\n(^[a-zA-Z\-]+:.*\n((	| ).*\n)*)+/x/^Received: .*\n((	| ).*\n)*/d

or in other words,
,		# select the whole file
y/^[ 	]*\n/	# loop over the bits between all the blank lines
g/^From .*\n(^[a-zA-Z\-]+:.*\n((	| ).*\n)*)+/
		# ensure the current bit matches this regexp which
		# describes a mail header (I think!)
x/^Received: .*\n((	| ).*\n)*/
		# loop over Received: header lines, handling continuation
		# to subsequent lines
d
		# delete


-Mark.

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Mark H. Wilkinson <mhw@minster.york.ac.uk>  : Research student in user
University of York, England                 : interface management systems



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