Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM (06/19/91)
here's a handy script: ftp=ftp #it might be called someting funny on your system -DJ #From: sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) #Newsgroups: alt.sources #Subject: retrieve RFC's automatically from uunet #Date: 11 Apr 91 22:22:30 GMT #Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University # #I find this little script handy, it retrieves RFC's automatically #from uunet via anonymous ftp and sticks them on stdout. #So, instead of keeping your own little collection of RFCs #hidden away somewhere and forgetting what directory you #put them in, you can just use # #% rfc index | more #% rfc 1217 | lpr (A personal favourite. Get this one. It's funny.) #!/bin/sh # rfc NNN # retrieve rfc NNN from uunet, put it on stdout # assumes rfc's are in uunet:/rfc/rfcNNNN.Z # # Actually the uunet people would prefer it if you ftp'd things # from 'ftp.uu.net', so we retrieve things from that machine. # # uunet conveniently has files called "index" and "rfc-index" # in the /rfc directory, so this script will also let you # retrieve those. # # sahayman # 1991 04 10 PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:usr/bin export PATH # a little hack so that we can say "rfc index" or "rfc rfc-index" # as well as "rfc 822" case "$1" in "") echo "$0: Usage $0 [NNN] [index] [rfc-index]" 1>&2; exit 1 ;; [0123456789]*) file=rfc$1.Z ;; *) file=$1.Z ;; esac ${ftp?} -n ftp.uu.net <<EOF user anonymous $USER@`hostname` binary get rfc/$file "|uncompress -c" EOF