From jik@athena.mit.edu Sun Jul  5 22:40:18 1992
Newsgroups: news.admin
From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Subject: Re: Need .newsrc cleanup tool
In-Reply-To: emv@msen.com's message of 5 Jul 1992 22:06:38 -0400
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Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1992 02:26:36 GMT

In article <1389rsINN46n@nigel.msen.com> emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) writes:

   (sed script to clean .newsrc)

   some versions of sed choke on long lines, be careful here.

perl -i.bak -pe 's/: *([0-9]*).*[,-]([0-9]*)$/: $1-$2/ || s/'\!'.*/'\!' /;' \
	.newsrc

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