Question

I have multiple files in a folder and each of them have one email message. Each message has a header in the format

Subject: formatting fonts 
To: [e-mail] 
From: sender 

email body

How can I get the body? I can get the subject , to ,from by something like “read XX”..
Since there’s no tag like “Body:” I cant get the email body for now

Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

You want everything but the first paragraph. sed can do this:

sed '1,/^$/d' file.txt

What it says is — start at the beginning, (1) go to the first line that’s blank (^$ — has nothing between the beginning ^ and end $) and delete it (d).