* Rakesh Sharma <sharma__r@hotmail.com> :
>
> Troy Piggins wrote:
> > I'm not too good with awk, but I don't think this can be done
> > with sed.

Apparently not too good with sed either ;-\

> sed -e '

If this can be done with sed then great, but I'll need a little
walk-through on your solution. It's a little above my
current/basic sed knowledge. I've been reading
http://sed.sourceforge.net/sedfaq.html and other resources, but
can't find one that satisfactorily explains what you've done.

> $!N

This adds Next line to the pattern space, but not the last line
of file?

> /^\n/{P;D;}

This matches beginning immediately followed by newline, not sure
what the {P;D;} part is?

> /\n.*signature/!{P;D;}

The word signature here throws me - should it be the sig
delimiter '-- '? Again not sure about {P;D;}?

> s/\n/&&/

&& ?

> '

Thanks for you , just need a little explanation of the above.

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