jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles) (10/01/89)
This is a little script that I tossed together to massage my .newsrc. I tried to edit it with 'vi' to move the order of some of the groups around, and clean it up a bit. Well, vi choked, as some of the lines were too long. (>1024 characters) Since I didn't feel line braving 'emacs', I decided to write this script. (No editor wars, please! :-) This will take some of the fairly long lines from your .newsrc, and compress them into something a little more reasonable. (People really don't leave marked messages in the middle of groups for a long time, right? :-) Anyway, have at it. If you like it, great. If not, then I suggest unlink(2). -Jeff -- Jeff Beadles Utek Engineering, Tektronix Inc. jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM #--------------------------------CUT HERE------------------------------------- #! /bin/sh # # This is a shell archive. Save this into a file, edit it # and delete all lines above this comment. Then give this # file to sh by executing the command "sh file". The files # will be extracted into the current directory owned by # you with default permissions. # # The files contained herein are: # # -rwxr-xr-x 1 jeff 1296 Oct 1 09:30 fixnewsrc # echo 'x - fixnewsrc' if test -f fixnewsrc; then echo 'shar: not overwriting fixnewsrc'; else sed 's/^X//' << '________This_Is_The_END________' > fixnewsrc X#!/bin/sh X## Copyright 1989, Jeff Beadles. Permission is granted to freely distribute. X## Submittor: Jeff Beadles jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM X## Name: fixnewsrc X## Date: Sun Oct 1 09:25:33 PDT 1989 X## Machine: BSD Unix X## OS: unix X## Version: 1.0 X## Synopsis: Fix long lines in .newsrc X## X## Description: X## X## This program will take the long lines created by rn in a .newsrc X## file, and shorten with them. (mark all articles as read) X## It takes lines that look like this: X## X## talk.politics.misc! 1-1234,1235-19210,19212,19245-20322 X## X## and changes it to: X## X## talk.politics.misc! 1-20322 X## X## This helps, as if you try to use 'vi', it chokes on lines longer X## than 1024 characters or so. Also, it probably speeds up the X## start-up time of rn. X## X## When done, a backup copy of .newsrc is saved in .newsrc.old X## X X## Change directory to the user's home directory Xcd X X## Check for a .newsrc file. Xif [ ! -f .newsrc ] ; then X echo "$0: .newsrc not found." X exit 1 Xfi X X## Check for a .newsrc.old file, and remove if needed. Xif [ -f .newsrc.old ] ; then X rm -f .newsrc.old Xfi X X## Make that backup first... Xcp .newsrc .newsrc.old X X## There is a space and a tab in the first two []'s below. Xsed '/!/s/^\([^ ][^ ]*\).*[,-][,-]*\([0-9][0-9]*\)$/\1 1-\2/' \ X < .newsrc.old > .newsrc Xexit 0 ________This_Is_The_END________ if test `wc -c < fixnewsrc` -ne 1296; then echo 'shar: fixnewsrc was damaged during transit (should have been 1296 bytes)' fi fi ; : end of overwriting check exit 0