From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Aug 21 03:15:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA26935 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 03:15:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mopsy.hobart.tased.edu.au (root@mopsy.hobart.TASed.EDU.AU [147.41.41.103]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA26922 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 03:15:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by mopsy.hobart.tased.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA29553 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 20:16:09 +1000 X-Authentication-Warning: mopsy.hobart.tased.edu.au: andrew owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 20:16:09 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew X-Sender: andrew@mopsy.hobart.tased.edu.au cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: distfiles as shar archives In-Reply-To: <199608211007.DAA07251@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Satoshi Asami wrote: > Did you get my mail? Yes, a few moments after I sent the fixed message :-( Oh well thanks to Mr. Asami I know have it fixed without the cd :-) > 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. Ok...thanks. I wasn't sure if 'complex' commands were the done thing in port makefiles. Andrew