From marc@r-node.gts.org Fri Jul 10 06:22:25 1992 From: marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Sys Admin) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Need .newsrc cleanup tool Date: 9 Jul 92 16:48:16 GMT Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX System (416-249-5366) 24hrs. In article jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes: >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 > >-- >Jonathan Kamens jik@MIT.Edu >MIT Information Systems/Athena Moderator, news.answers > (Send correspondence related to the news.answers newsgroup > {and ONLY correspondence related to the newsgroup} > to news-answers-request@MIT.Edu.) And, if you want the easiest way to do it, there is a program called newsclean that is availble by ftp'ing to ftp.uu.net and I think it is in /usenet/comp.sources.misc(.unix) It does a very nice job of cleaning up your .newsrc by making the 'numbers' continuous (1-n) and it also sorts it by putting everything you read at the top of the .newsrc and not mixed all over the place. If you need more info, email me and I'll get you the exact place it is found, in case you can't ftp directly and your site allows for it to come through the mail. Marc -- ********************************************************************** | Marc Fournier R-Node Public Access Unix 416-249-5366 | | 1800+ newsgroups Running UnixBBS 1.03 network email | | 7 days/week shell accounts available 24 hrs/day | | Telebit T3000/SupraModem 2400/Cardinal 2400 | | marc@r-node.gts.org r-node!marc marc@r-node.uucp | **********************************************************************