stripping off before ----

[Richard O'Keefe]

In article <1126 at eagle.wesleyan.edu>, dkonerding at eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
> .. I'm using ed and vi, ... I need to get rid of everything before the
> "---------" line.  How can I accomplish this ...

	1,/^--*$/d

Delete from line 1 down to a line which consists entirely of dashes and
contains at least one dash.  More generally, you may want "unshar", a
version of which was posted in 1988 by Bill Davidsen (davidsen at sixhub.uucp)
as part of his "cshar" package.