Apologizes for the extranneous posting, but:
> # ok, this trims the first character from every line of file 'butt' and
> # writes the new file as 'butt.out'
> # you need to 'rm butt.out' every time, because this just appends the
> # text..
actually, i wrote the script (but didn't update yon comments) to:
read the first character of each line
if it's a '+', remove the first two characters and write the line
if it aint, just write the line..
vi=satan.
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