[ILUG] sed

[Timothy Murphy]

On Sunday 11 July 2004 10:48, olearypj at rte.ie wrote:

>           I need to delete the header & keep the body of an email,I tried
> it with the following sed command,
>      sed '1,/^$/d' email > emailbody.txt
> to delete from the first line up to the first white space,
> but all I get is an empty emailbody.txt. I've tried the command with small
> text files with different numbers of white spaces & it works everytime.
> What am I doing wrong with the real email? There is what looks like a few
> blank lines between the bottom of the header & the body, co I'm confused

Maybe they are not blank lines.
What does "od -c email" say?

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