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Subject: Re: distfiles as shar archives
From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami)
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 * Well I have fixed that problem (the cd is still in the EXTRACT_CMD line).

Did you get my mail?

 * Now I have the problem that there is garbage at the top of the sahr
 * archive that makes sh produce errors...when it reaches the actual shell
 * script bit it goes ok but it looks ugly. Any suggestions?

You can use sed to cut off the lines you don't need before piping it
to sh.  Either use a pattern match, or just count the number of lines
and do a sed -e '1,10d' kind of thing.

Satoshi