emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) (03/20/91)
In article <1991Mar20.034216.28116@news.iastate.edu> spam@iastate.edu (Begley Michael L) writes:
Anyway, my question is: "What am I doing wrong?" My ultimate goal is to
have a shell script called something like groupread (rather orwellian) that
I would use like this:
groupread news.group > file
where file would contain all the unread atricles in news.group.
if you ftp "dynafeed" from uunet, i.e
uunet.uu.net:/ClariNet/dynafeed.tar.Z
and compile up the "feed" program in it, create a .newsrc file with
something like
grep net.blurfl ~/.newsrc >.newsrc-blurfl
and then run feed like so
feed -listmode newsrc=.newsrc-blurfl command="cat" > file
it'll do more or less what you want. Read the man pages of course
before you do this.
followups to news.software.b....
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emv@msen.comspam@iastate.edu (Begley Michael L) (03/20/91)
I need to be able to concatenate all articles in a news group into a single file so I can mail it to someone without netnews. I tried piping commands into rn from a file, but it got wedged after the first command. (for experimentation purposes, I just used the commands that would read the first message out of the first newsgroup, then quit out of rn. The file 'command' looked like this: y q q q I tried running it with: cat command | rn and rn < command both processes hung and I had to kill them from another shell. Anyway, my question is: "What am I doing wrong?" My ultimate goal is to have a shell script called something like groupread (rather orwellian) that I would use like this: groupread news.group > file where file would contain all the unread atricles in news.group. Thanks a lot... -mike begley spam@iastate.edu --
jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (03/20/91)
I suspect this would be more appropriate in news.announce.newusers, since it is specifically a news-related question, but what the heck.... The reason your first attempt failed is that rn flushes typeahead by default. Therefore, it saw the initial 'y' command, but then flushed the three 'q' commands. You can get around this by running rn with the "-T" option, which (according to the rn(1) man page) "allows you to type ahead of rn." You might also want to use the "-s" and "-t" options to suppress the initial list of groups with unread news and to put rn into terse mode. -- Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134 Office: 617-253-8085 Home: 617-782-0710