w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) (12/15/89)
Brian Vanlandingham <bvan@uncecs.edu> writes: > Would it be possible for you to post something on how to concatenate > multi part uuencoded binaries received from LISTSERV. The problem I'm > having (an other people, judging from some of the posting on usenet) > is that the much beloved 'combine' script we've been using to get > binaries posted via newsgroups doesn't know how to deal with them > because individual parts on the LISTSERV files lack a 'BEGIN' line. > thanks. The following Unix shell script "lcombine" is functionally the same as the comp.binaries.ibm.pc "combine" script. Use it to uudecode multiple-part uuencoded files received from LISTSERV (or TRICKLE in Europe). #! /bin/sh cat $* | sed '/--- End /,/--- Part/d' | uudecode Save that as an executable shell script called "lcombine". Assuming you have saved the multiple-part uuencoded files in a logical manner, such as: simibm.uue1, simibm.uue2, simibm.uue3 invoke the script like this: lcombine simibm.uue* It will combine all the pieces together, skipping everything between the dashed lines with "End" and "Part", and feed the result to uudecode. Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of SIMTEL20's CP/M, MSDOS, & MISC archives [IP address 26.2.0.74] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil, w8sdz@brl.arpa BITNET: w8sdz@NDSUVM1 Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz
roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) (12/15/89)
In article <KPETERSEN.12550131182.BABYL@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>, w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) writes: > > The following Unix shell script "lcombine" is functionally the same as the > comp.binaries.ibm.pc "combine" script. Use it to uudecode multiple-part > uuencoded files received from LISTSERV (or TRICKLE in Europe). > > #! /bin/sh > cat $* | sed '/--- End /,/--- Part/d' | uudecode > At my site, our version of uudecode doesn't like the LISTSERV flavor of uuencoded files. (LISTSERV places the M at both ends of the line, instead of the beginning only) So, I have modified the script above to the following: cat $* | sed '/--- End /,/--- Part/d' | sed 's/M$//'| uudecode That will avoid the "Checksum error decoding line x" message for every file, but preserve any other error messages, such as abnormal termination. The alternative is to add '2|grep -v checksum' or '2>err' and tail err for any unusual conclusions. -- _R_o_y _M_. _S_i_l_v_e_r_n_a_i_l | UUCP: uunet!comcon!roy | "No, I don't live in an igloo!" [ah, but it's my account... of course I opine!] -Sourdough's riposte SnailMail: P.O. Box 210856, Anchorage, Alaska, 99521-0856, U.S.A., Earth, etc.