wengland@stephsf.stephsf.com (Bill England) (01/03/91)
In article <1048@unisql.UUCP> you write: >Does anyone have a little cron daemon or some such that recognizes and >extracts the growing number of FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) postings >and puts them in some other location? I currently extract those in the >newsgroups that I follow and put them in a public location, but I'm >thinking of writing something like the above to relieve myself of the >burden and to also catch those FAQs in newsgroups I don't follow (but >it's possible someone has already considered and done this) ... >-- >alfred It should be pretty easy to hack such an animal in perl. Right now I have a utility that renames archive news files as a preliminary for archiving comp.sources.* to floppy disk. As an initial design how about running find /usr/spool/news -ctime 1 -print to find new news articles and then parsing the Subject line for the string FAQ. You will probally need a copy/rename function to translate files names ... Hmm, maybe copy /usr/spool/news/GROUP/0000 /u/ftp/FAQS/GROUP If your file system only supports 14 chars then some group renaming/mapping function will be required. A modification of this utility could provide you with a daily or weekly posting list of your favorite authors or topics. Bill England wengland@stepsf.COM #!/u/bin/perl ## # As a starter here is a perl script that finds some FAQ files # (This one currently goes through all news files, in pratice # a -ctime 1 would go into the find.) # # Bill England # wengland@stephsf.com ## eval "exec /u/bin/perl -S $0 $*" if $running_under_some_shell; open (FIND_PIPE, "find /usr/spool/news/ -print|"); while (<FIND_PIPE>){ ($fn)=split; # Skip files that are not text files ... ( Skip Directory names ) # next unless -T "$fn"; open(IN_NEWS, $fn); while(<IN_NEWS>){ local($subject); ($junk, $subject)= split(/: /, $_, 2) if /^Subject: /; if ($subject){ chop($subject); printf("name: %s, Subject: %s\n", $fn, $subject) if $subject =~ /^Freq/; last; # IN_NEWS } } } # end of find_pipe -- +- Bill England, wengland@stephsf.COM -----------------------------------+ | * * H -> He +24Mev | | * * * ... Oooo, we're having so much fun making itty bitty suns * | |__ * * ___________________________________________________________________|
harald.alvestrand@elab-runit.sintef.no (01/04/91)
There is a simpler way, at least for the end-user.
I hacked up a PERL script to run nntp (the socket-based mechanism), and
by using the XHDR command, I can get the subject fields, and search them.
This gives me at least the local article numbers of the FAQ articles.
I expect the server would not like me to implement a command that searches
all groups for FAQ subjects :-)
(no, the script IS too ugly for posting :-)
Harald Tveit Alvestrand
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